Book Quotes · Page 227

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it…

— Vicky Hartzler

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

— Jasper Fforde

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

— John Green

“The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”

— L.J. deVet

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

— Margaret Atwood

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

— Emily Ratajkowski

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore

“The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!”

— Laura Beth

“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,…

— Roberto Bolaño

A friend is like a book that has to be read to appreciate its beauty...as such, u are one of d finest…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people…

— Tara Bray Smith

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third…

— Alan Ritchson

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any…

— Mac Barnett

“Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

— Michael Berryman

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you…

— David Shrigley

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything…

— Kate Atkinson

If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t…

— Francis Spufford

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show…

— Robertson Davies

When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book…

— Ned Beauman

Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their…

— Morris Gleitzman

Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime.…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was…

— Eckhart Tolle

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

— Jessie Cave

“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“At some point though I need to stop cataloguing them or I’ll never get this book finished.”

— Joe Cater

“To be on the same page, we need to be in the same book.”

— Rahul Guhathakurta

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

— Colson Whitehead

“Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.”

— Aman Jassal

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

— Vikram Seth

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

— Terry Riley

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

— Markus Zusak

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

— Alberto Manguel

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

— Tom Peters

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

— Sean Durkin