Book Quotes · Page 214

“Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book.

— Brad Bird

“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie”

— Anita Silvey

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

— Tracy Morgan

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

— Joe Satriani

Never judge a book by its cover, until you've read the pages that are inbetween the book.

— Bryant Collins

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

— Anonymous

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

— Amy Plum

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your…

— David Gilmour

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who…

— Madeline Brewer

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to…

— Harlan Coben

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century.…

— Janet Evanovich

“I thought maybe Against Nature would be a book about someone who viewed things the way I did - someone trying to…

— Elif Batuman

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made…

— Paul Theroux

I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . .…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics…

— Tim Harford

Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the…

— Meg Cabot

“There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some…

— Will Schwalbe

I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to…

— Max Lucado

Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't…

— Nat Hentoff

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American…

— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr

In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and…

— Isabel Allende

I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager…

— Nathan Englander

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

— Terry Pratchett

“Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.”

— Ronald E. Yates

“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running.”

— D.D. Chant

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

— LeBron James

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

— John C. Maxwell

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

— Anonymous

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”

— Myra Pollack Sadker

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

— Judy Blume

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

— Heinrich Heine

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

— William H. Gass

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

— John Lithgow