Book Quotes · Page 206

I do like Pat Conroy, and 'The Great Santini' is an iconic book.

— Douglas Brunt

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

— David Sedaris

There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.

— Anonymous

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

— Kellan Lutz

Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.

— Connor Ripley

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five…

— Albert Einstein

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

— Carl Hiaasen

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity,…

— M. M. Mangasarian

“I believe it’s fine to give up books even after a page; there’s so much to read in the world that will…

— Hilary Mantel

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe…

— Saul Williams

I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that…

— Lena Dunham

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can…

— Dick Wolf

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my…

— Dave Barry

Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and…

— Madonna Ciccone

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact…

— Omar Khayyam

I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with…

— David Mitchell

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be…

— Ashwin Sanghi

A Boosh fan bought me an original copy of 'The Jungle Book' - like, the first print from 1894 - so I've…

— Noel Fielding

The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything…

— Stacy Schiff

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made…

— Isak Dinesen

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of…

— Pablo Neruda

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I…

— Per Petterson

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

— Payne Stewart

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Read on for a sneak preview of Blood Past, book two in the Warriors of Ankh series…”

— Anonymous

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

— Rick Riordan

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

— Larry Elder

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

— Edmund White

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

— Anonymous

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

— Annie Dillard

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

— Susan Wojcicki

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

— Frederick Lenz

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

— Shelby Foote

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

— Julian Barnes

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.

— Emily Rodda

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.

— Ban Ki-moon