Book Quotes · Page 216

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

When people say don't judge a book by its cover that's complete bullshit...reality didn't hit them yet.

— Anonymous

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there…

— Katrina Kaif

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing…

— Emma Donoghue

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

— Philip Jose Farmer

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

— Carol Berg

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books -…

— Nancy Spain

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true…

— Francesco Albani

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only…

— Henry Miller

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,…

— Sherman Alexie

I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up…

— Kate Zambreno

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or…

— Laura Miller

Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough,…

— Michael Uslan

I don't get how people want to read books on computers because it must be really bad for your eyes, for starters.…

— Kate Nash

We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic,…

— Jeff Vespa

Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is…

— Matthew Zapruder

To be honest, I didn't want to get inside Jones's head. Every time I wrote about Jim Jones I practically had to…

— Julia Scheeres

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

— Kristin Hannah

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

— Lewis Hamilton

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

— Azar Nafisi

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

— Lawrence M. Krauss

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of…

— Richard Baxter

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

He's just a chapter. Turn the page but don't close the book.

— B

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

— Holly Lisle

Every girl should have this-the little black book for career success!

— Susan Cohn Rockefeller

“If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.”

— Brock Clarke

“If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.”

— Chila Woychik

“A great book feeds our soul and nourishes our spirit in a way nothing else can.”

— C. S. Lakin

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

— Carlos Fuentes

We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good.

— Pete Wentz

You don't have to be the best in someones book; As long as your one of the chapters.

— Daniell Jabara