Book Quotes · Page 230

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

— Terry Pratchett

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

— Jasper Fforde

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

— James McCosh

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

“Remember that the first rule when editing a book is to DO NO HARM.”

— Shawn Coyne

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

— Kathy Acker

“I had so much fun writing this book and I want readers to have fun also. A Passion for Prying is a…

— Nancy Mangano

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that…

— Nick Hornby

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order…

— Stephen King

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend…

— Berenice Bejo

Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they…

— Rick Riordan

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd…

— Franny Armstrong

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to…

— Michelle Tea

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have…

— Dick Cavett

Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education…

— Rebecca Mead

The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.…

— Laura Whitcomb

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped…

— Stephen King

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands.…

— Michael Finkel

I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the…

— Jacque Fresco

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything,"…

— Aaron Swartz

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

— Anonymous

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

— Anthony Storr

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

— George Payne Rainsford James

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

— A. Edward Newton

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

— Charles Frazier

There are books that inspired me the first time round and re-reading them just reignites that.

— Edith Bowman

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

— James MacArthur

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

— Zygmunt Bauman

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

— Steve Maraboli

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

— Eugene Field

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

— Laurie Halse Anderson