Book Quotes · Page 202

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

— Robert Kirkman

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

— Nelson Algren

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

— Tyrann Mathieu

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

— Brandon Sanderson

“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”

— Lauren Oliver

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

— Laura Miller

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese proverb”

— shared by my mom Hazel Lock

“When you cry when you read my book, it's not something inside my book that makes you cry, it's something inside you.”

— Kate McGahan

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good…

— James Frey

If you write a written book, you're gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person,…

— Jimmy Page

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the…

— Dav Pilkey

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the…

— Edward Abbey

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of…

— George Eliot

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how…

— J. C. Ryle

I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read…

— Woody Norris

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think…

— Anonymous

A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody … In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the…

— Christine Schutt

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in…

— Richard Cobden

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what…

— Sadakat Kadri

The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the…

— John Hagee

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

— Melissa Gilbert

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

— Anonymous

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

— Bess Truman

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

— Glen Hirshberg

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

— Clive Barker

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

— Laura Bush

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

— Shawn Ashmore

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

— Anonymous

“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”

— Kevin Kelly

“Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!”

— K. Lamb

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

— Cecily von Ziegesar

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

— Arnold Bennett

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

— Ava Gardner

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

— Guy Kawasaki

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

— Patrick Rothfuss