Book Quotes · Page 201

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

— Christopher Morley

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

— Louisa May Alcott

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

— Charles Lamb

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

— Stephan Jenkins

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

— Italo Calvino

“Book fill me in, with the romance I always wanted in my life.”

— nivedita vedurla

“Always judge a book by it's cover! Go against the grain!”

— TheBook Crew

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!

— Gretchen Rubin

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the…

— Dua Lipa

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

— Lauren Hutton

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which…

— Philip Pullman

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that…

— Stanley Unwin

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I…

— Margaret Haddix

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the…

— George Saunders

I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else?…

— Susan Orlean

Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if…

— Mark Ryden

[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or…

— Siobhan Curham

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to…

— Lev Grossman

I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I…

— James Franco

I'm fortunate enough to get to make books for a living, so I spend my entire workday alone in my studio quietly…

— Vera Brosgol

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of…

— Khalil

We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus…

— Gene Wolfe

“Even when all other forms of communication fail, books will remain.”

— George Brockway

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

— Umberto Eco

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

— Susan Wallace

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

— Louise Brown

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

— Stephen Ambrose

Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap.

— Paul Martin

Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

— David Bryan

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

— Naomi Alderman

“Books are everything; Refreshing and amazing. What would a world have to be, without something to read?”

— Mikaylah Hansen

“Here are my criteria for a good book: you start reading and you don't stop.”

— Anonymous

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

— Robert Jordan

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

— Paul Fussell

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

— Michael Morpurgo