Book Quotes · Page 195

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

— Marshall McLuhan

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

— Abraham Cowley

If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters.

— Anonymous

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

— Carol Shields

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

— Deb Caletti

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write…

— Astrid Lindgren

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

— Michael Ignatieff

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

— Horace Mann

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me…

— Adam Braver

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them…

— Anthony Bourdain

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at…

— Luis von Ahn

“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In…

— Elif Shafak

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I…

— Jackie Collins

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.…

— Adriana Trigiani

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a…

— Ashly Lorenzana

I'm passionate about music, food, books, film, blah, blah. The same things everyone is passionate about, no? Love, sex, connection. Peace. Not…

— Damian Kulash

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I…

— Benjamin Franklin

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they…

— Brock Adams

Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them…

— Dannah Gresh

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought…

— Herbert Wilf

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back…

— Montel Williams

I think 'The Book of Mormon' has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It's something that 20 years…

— Josh Gad

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion,…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not…

— Pamela Paul

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

— Laura Bush

“I can no longer remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

— Augustine Birrell

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

— Henry David Thoreau

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

— Nicholson Baker

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

— Jenny Lawson

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

— Edward Abbey

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

— Bill Sienkiewicz

“She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.”

— Michael Baron

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

— Bernard Cornwell

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

— Edith Wharton

Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.

— Hugh Nibley

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

— Bertrand Russell

My dream is to make a movie on 'Vyakti Ani Valli,' a play based on the famous book written by P.L. Deshpande.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Life is like a book you cant get any further untill you turn the next page to see what the future holds

— Anonymous