Book Quotes · Page 220

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

— Jason Schwartzman

If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

— Jed Diamond

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

— Laurie Notaro

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

— Alice Waters

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

“There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!”

— Anonymous

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an…

— Jackie Collins

Life is like a book.each day is a new page.may your book be your bestseller with adventures to tell,lessons to learn and…

— Anonymous

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing…

— Henry Winkler

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as…

— Richard Dawkins

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about…

— Meg Wolitzer

The fact that there are still mainstream print media outlets willing to devote precious pages to book coverage at all is a…

— Camille Perri

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer…

— Erma Bombeck

I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the…

— Dorothy Bryant

I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat…

— Nicky Wire

It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not…

— Ramana Maharshi

“If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones.…

— Daniel J. Rice

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was…

— Ira Glass

One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'…

— Cassandra Clare

“A novel, or a book on philosophy, is going to use both sides of the brain: not only will you have feelings…

— Philippa Perry

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of…

— Stefan Merrill Block

“Used books,” as if someone else has had the best of them and you get the sere husk, or the lees, as…

— Deborah Meyler

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

— Alan Dershowitz

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

— David McCullough

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

— Eve Bunting

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

— Edward Abbey

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.

— Mary Wiseman

“She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.”

— Anonymous

“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.”

— Molly MacRae

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

— Jane Smiley

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

— Lisa Murkowski

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though… This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

— Arvind Ethan David

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

“I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.”

— Ronald Sukenick