Book Quotes · Page 207

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

— Wendell H. Ford

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

— Roger Zelazny

I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way.

— Danny Mcbride

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

— Paul Scofield

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

— Martha MacIsaac

“There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”

— Cormac McCarthy

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

— Joseph Roth

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read…

— Robert E. Howard

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are…

— Andy Weir

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world…

— Evan Peters

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a…

— J. Patrick Lewis

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!”

— Roald Dahl

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my…

— Sara Sheridan

Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able…

— William Gibson

“There are so many little trig~ gers out there, being squeezed in the darkness even as I write this. This book is…

— Neil Gaiman

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if…

— Jojo Moyes

Max Baer called me one morning and told me that Carl Foreman was making a movie based on the book 'Mackenna's Gold'…

— Ted Cassidy

“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way…

— Jay Parini

“Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the…

— Thomas Wharton

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

— David McCullough

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

— Wilbur Smith

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

— Lisa Jewell

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

— Annie Dillard

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

— David Augsburger

“She was never without a good book close by, not even when she was lying in bed with nothing on her”

— Joseph Heller

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

— Karin Slaughter

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

— David Guterson

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to…

— Maxwell Perkins

“If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.”

— Lorii Myers

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

— Robin Sloan

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

— Rebecca McClanahan

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

— John Barrowman

“Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow…

— Lynda Barry

The judge threw the book at my man, judges like throwin books so I throw magazines.

— Papoose