Book Quotes · Page 223

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

— Anonymous

“What is it with you and that book?" Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on”

— Helene Hanff

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” answered Julián.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

— Terry Pratchett

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

— Ulysses S. Grant

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No…

— Katherine Paterson

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The…

— Sherwood Anderson

I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book…

— Dana Goldstein

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the…

— Frederick Buechner

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half…

— Willa Cather

It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to…

— Stephen Chbosky

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not…

— George Steiner

I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology:…

— Angela Lansbury

Students at residential universities often live together and spend time on activities that aren't connected with the university. Then, should the university's…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with…

— Lois Lowry

On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the…

— William Safire

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul;…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about…

— Ben Gibbard

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the…

— Anonymous

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

— John Green

“Is there a purpose to this visit, or may I return to my book?”

— Sarah J. Maas

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

— Stephen Fry

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

— Richard de Bury

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

— Karin Slaughter

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

— Nora Ephron

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

— Simon Armitage

The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

— Stephen Colbert

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

— Anjelica Huston

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The book Since the publication of my autobiography which was featured till today are moist

— Mak_786

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

— Neil Gaiman

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep…

— Morgan Freeman