Book Quotes · Page 205

“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”

— Annie Dillard

Life is like a book, but only you can choose what it's about.

— Brielle Amos

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

— Anonymous

“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.”

— Tom Kane

“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

— Teddy Wayne

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

— Margaret Wise Brown

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

— David Mitchell

Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at…

— Michael Koryta

Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above…

— Fred Upton

“A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.”

— Zack Love

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I…

— Haruki Murakami

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

— Lionel Shriver

There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it…

— Danielle Dutton

40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and…

— Jonathan Kellerman

Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And…

— Val Guest

Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an…

— Theda Skocpol

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject…

— Simon Sinek

“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind…

— Mark Cantrell

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If…

— Jennifer Crusie

This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney…

— Cornel West

FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation…

— Sasa Stanisic

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

— Laura Lippman

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

— Kevin Henkes

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

— Scott Westerfeld

Books are fun and your genre can help describe you love who you are and respect the title.

— BBL

“You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— H. L. Mencken

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

— Gabby Douglas

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

— Josh Gad

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

— Charles Bukowski

“Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.”

— Paula Gruben

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

— Anonymous

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

— Douglas Adams

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“And thank you for not putting it in your book. And fuck you for not putting it in your book.”

— Lynn Coady