Book Quotes · Page 200

“Only a book is enough to change the course of your life.”

— Aman Jassal

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

— Hansie Cronje

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

— Meg Cabot

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

— Jade Hassoune

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

— Cindy Sherman

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

— Sadakat Kadri

“A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.”

— K. Lamb

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track…

— Dawn Powell

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's…

— Joshua Mohr

“First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does…

— Marie Sexton

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will…

— Lori Lansens

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I…

— Salman Rushdie

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can…

— Sylvia Plath

“This book is a awsome book and i really gor into it. I couldn't put the book down. Loved it and would…

— Anonymous

“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being'…

— Robert Kegan

As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice…

— Ishmael Reed

About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our…

— Sam Harris

I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what…

— Kehinde Wiley

We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I…

— Walter Farley

“Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or…

— Kelly G. Wilson

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…

— Skip Horack

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

— Thomas Perry

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

— Danny Boyle

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

— William S. Burroughs

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

— Stef Penney

WE'VE BEEN READING THE MÖTLEY CRÜE BOOK. THATS OUR HOLY BIBLE.

— M. Shadows

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

— Fran Lebowitz

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

— William Landay

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

— George H. W. Bush

As a comic book fan, I've seen all the comic book movies.

— Ruben Fleischer

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

— Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”

— Charles Dickens

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

— Markus Zusak

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in…

— Salman Rushdie

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

— Joseph Joubert

I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

— Billy Eichner