Book Quotes · Page 225

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

— George Carlin

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

— Italian Proverb

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

— Christopher Marlowe

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

— Tim Vine

I'm an open book. I share a lot of my life with everybody.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

— Thomas Keller

“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving…

— Justin Cronin

Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about…

— Conan O'Brien

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of…

— Khalil

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that…

— Jack Prelutsky

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the…

— Andy Rooney

When I was little, my dad was in the Air Force. He introduced me to Neil Armstrong, and Neil Armstrong signed my…

— Rich Fulcher

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case,…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer…

— Graeme Base

So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books…

— Cees Nooteboom

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that…

— C.K. Webb

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all…

— Wendy Doniger

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime…

— Linwood Barclay

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them…

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Trust strikes at the heart of our success at JetBlue. Trust is key to the speed of our growth. The Speed of…

— David Neeleman

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor.…

— Marie Kondo

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

— Joanne Greenberg

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

— Sally Schneider

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

— Pete Hautman

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

— Scott Carpenter

Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

— Orlando Bloom

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

— Bob Hope

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

— William Gilbert

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

“What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?”

— Mark Helprin

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

If knowledge does not bring money, the book is its place, not the brain.

— Ilkin Santak

To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.

— Guillermo del Toro

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

— Tyler Hilton

“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly…

— Vince Passaro

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison