Book Quotes · Page 198

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

— Duane Ludwig

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

— Colm Toibin

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

— Kate DiCamillo

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

— William Shakespeare

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

— Naomi Novik

“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and —”

— Anonymous

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can…

— Virginia Woolf

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by…

— George Saunders

Take life as a book. You move on and you turn a page you remember what has happened and your memories are…

— Amber

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university…

— Jasper Fforde

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what…

— Susan Sontag

As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and…

— Betty Smith

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why…

— Stephen King

You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine…

— Gunplay

You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad…

— Paul Auster

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I…

— Alec Soth

“All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having…

— Brock Clarke

My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign…

— Sara Zarr

Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they…

— John Waters

My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could…

— Kirk Douglas

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

— Samuel Butler

“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.”

— LaShonna Dyson

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

— Heinrich Heine

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Mwisho wa sura si mwisho wa kitabu. Fungua ukurasa mwingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

“If you were a book, I’d read you, touch you, look at you every day and never get bored.”

— Ella Fields

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

— Dan Hawkins

“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?”

— Thomas Ligotti

“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”

— Brian Andreas

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

— Anonymous

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

— Aneurin Bevan

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

— George Eliot

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

— Louis L'Amour

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

— Anonymous