Book Quotes · Page 229

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book…

— Jules Shear

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.

— Crystal Roby

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

— Michael Dirda

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

— Alan Robert

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

— David Sedaris

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers…

— Jodi Picoult

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made…

— Anonymous

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes…

— Dani Shapiro

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the…

— Anne Fadiman

'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November…

— Michael Gruber

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first…

— Laura Nowlin

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a…

— Edgar Winter

this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the…

— Walt Whitman

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own… It would…

— James Gleick

It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last…

— Frank Luntz

“What is that big book?" said the little prince. "What are you doing?" "I am a geographer," said the old gentleman. "What…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if…

— Art Spiegelman

In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half,…

— Tori Amos

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why…

— Jeff Olson

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

— Jack Vance

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

— Antonio Tabucchi

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

— Brad Delp

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

— George Whitman

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

— Liza Campbell

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

— Watty Piper

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

— Taiye Selasi

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

— Vladimir Horowitz