Book Quotes · Page 204

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

— Anonymous

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

— William Temple

I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

— Michael Connelly

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I don't believe books have endings. Not the well written ones anyway...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I may not be book smart, but I'm smart enough to protect your heart.*

— Anonymous

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

— Carl Sandburg

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

— Derek Walcott

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it…

— Adam Langer

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

— Leni Riefenstahl

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life…

— Billy Collins

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a…

— Ahmet Zappa

“To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films… and…

— Deyth Banger

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day.…

— Naomie Harris

Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my…

— Heather Anne Campbell

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple…

— Elie Wiesel

The dirty little secret about comics is that the wall to getting published is actually not that high. You can publish your…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books.…

— Maj Sjowall

In life, when you are faced with an unfortunate circumstance, there’s no book, there’s no guide, there’s no right answer on how…

— Lea Michele

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper.…

— Tim Lebbon

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading…

— Jane Austen

A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction…

— Jane Wiedlin

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

— Matthew Vaughn

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

— John Gimlette

“I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

— Gary D. Schmidt

“will you be the one reading the book or writing the book”

— Abe

“Our library isn't very extensive, but every book in it is a friend.”

— L.M. Montgomery

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

— Paulo Coelho

Spending time with a book is much more than just learning to read.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!

— William Lashner

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

— Robert Eggers

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

— Walter Savage Landor

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

— Christian Rudder

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

— Jane Austen

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

— Harlan Coben