Book Quotes · Page 197

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

— Mark Fidrych

“Books aren't made of pages and words.They are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.”

— Harlequin

“Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

— Richard Arnold Epstein

“By each book which i Have written... I play different roles... ... One I was playing the role of god!”

— Deyth Banger

“this was a book about working out who you were. About identity, constant and threatened.”

— Lewis Carroll

Life isn't a book, so stop waiting for someone to write you a happy ending.

— Anonymous

“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because…

— Sandra Cisneros

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry.…

— Graeme Base

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books…

— Raina Telgemeier

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books…

— Robin Hobb

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou…

— Bahá'u'lláh

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten…

— Nicholson Baker

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can…

— Mac Barnett

“If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment…

— Toba Beta

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where…

— Haruki Murakami

I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I…

— Raegan Butcher

I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what…

— Nora Roberts

For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing…

— Hassan Blasim

While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas…

— Laura Moriarty

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the…

— Charles Spurgeon

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black…

— Kathryn Stockett

I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.

— Adriana Trigiani

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

— John Alfred Langford

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

— Anne Enright

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

— H. G. Wells

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

— Lauren Hutton

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

— Brooks Atkinson

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

— Dacia Maraini

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

— Paul Laffoley

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

— Tom Peters

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

— Rose Macaulay

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

— Jamie Campbell Bower

“Is there anything better than pussy? Yes, a really good book.”

— Bo Burnham

“In a book, a line is what it takes to make all the difference.”

— Ashlet

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

— Hansie Cronje