Book Quotes · Page 215

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

— Philip Schaff

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

— Matthew Kelly

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

— Eric Metaxas

“To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.”

— Anonymous

I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

— Bret Easton Ellis

That awkward moment when the internet goes down so you have to use your book to find the answers.

— Anonymous

'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

— Wayne Dyer

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid…

— Beverly Cleary

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with…

— Ramona Koval

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book…

— Amanda Hocking

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.…

— Simon Rich

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to…

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it.…

— Michael Ian Black

What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book…

— John Updike

It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each…

— Molly Antopol

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned…

— Phyllis A. Whitney

I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I…

— Roger Zelazny

Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how…

— Tony Hiss

In this wonderful book Stephen Buhner shows us that the heart is not a machine but the informed, intelligent core of our…

— Matthew Wood

Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on…

— Daniel Levitin

From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made…

— Mark Strand

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted…

— Carl Sagan

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.”

— Seymour Chwast

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

— Burton Cummings

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

— Anonymous

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

— Walter Matthau

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved…

— Jan Karon

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

— Dave Barry

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

— Lisa Scottoline

“The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business.”

— Michael Ben Zehabe

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

— Yunus Emre

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

— David Levithan