Book Quotes · Page 219

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

— Anonymous

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

— Lev Grossman

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

— John Wesley

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“CUSTOMER: You know that film, Coraline? BOOKSELLER: Yes, indeed. CUSTOMER: My daughter loves it. Are they going to make it into a…

— Jen Campbell

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or…

— Olly Murs

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the…

— John Clellon Holmes

From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book…

— Bryan Burrough

My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's…

— Becky Albertalli

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

— Franz Grillparzer

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only…

— Viggo Mortensen

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book…

— Judy Blume

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that…

— Gary Paulsen

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and…

— Dave Barry

I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound…

— Frances Moore Lappé

“This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates…

— Christian Tetzlaff

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these…

— Richard Donner

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about…

— Saint Augustine

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because…

— Terry Pratchett

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

— Kid Rock

“Then I understood. There was no book. My father wasn’t a writer. He wasn’t even a vampire. He was a madman.”

— Kami Garcia

When a person really desire something, the whole universe help that person to realize hi dream.

— Paulo Coelho

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

— Sonia Sotomayor

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

— John Green

“I have books I go to only when I need solace or when I am in pain of body or soul.”

— Gwen E Campbell

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

— Upton Sinclair

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

— Tim McGraw

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. —THOMAS CARLYLE,”

— Anonymous

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

— Anonymous

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

— Mary Grandpre

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

— Ben Elton

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

— Henry Ward Beecher