Book Quotes · Page 222

A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

— Michael Chabon

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

— Raymond Chandler

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

— Hanna Rosin

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

— Janice Dickinson

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without…

— Lois Lowry

The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book…

— Morgan Philpot

“as if people read books then developed ideas, not wondering whether perhaps it is the other way around; people look for books…

— Anonymous

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression…

— Samuel Beckett

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

— Stephen Fry

I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing…

— Patti Hansen

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old…

— Lady Gregory

“I think it's because when you hold a book you're also holding a tree in one form or another, and that direct…

— Ali Smith

Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare…

— Myla Goldberg

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for…

— Maureen Corrigan

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved,…

— A. J. P. Taylor

I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap…

— Mike Royer

I think my style changes somewhat. The themes I am interested in exploring are mostly the same, but I tackle them differently.…

— Vandana Singh

Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and…

— Martin Samuel

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

— Malala Yousafzai

“I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.”

— Owl City

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

— Michelle Rodriguez

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

— Gabrielle Zevin

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

— Robert Osborne

The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.

— Edward Eager

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

— Albert Einstein

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

— James Patterson

“Grace will always make the difference Book Only by grace”

— Solomon Teddy Osei

“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

— Amy Klobuchar