Book Quotes · Page 233

“You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Finally! You're here!" Uh…Do I know you?" Well, no…But you're here, all the same...”

— Lynn Weingarten

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

— Steven Wright

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it…

— Christopher Hampton

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

— Ursula Nordstrom

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before…

— Barack Obama

I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great -…

— Kate Grenville

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to…

— Annie Dillard

One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you…

— Celeste Ng

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of…

— Betty Smith

“for the book. Discuss the novel in light of this poem. What do you think he is saying about rightdoing and wrongdoing…

— Khaled Hosseini

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

— Juvenal

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in…

— John Steinbeck

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me…

— Donna Leon

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always…

— Susan Wiggs

I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love…

— Lisa Gardner

“Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned…

— Norman Cousins

“It’s when life starts going wrong, when things start being horrible ,that you first realize that life isn’t like anything in a…

— Alaa Alghamdi

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization,…

— Garth Stein

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,…

— Robert Hass

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

— Andy Andrews

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

— Narendra Modi

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

— Michael Morpurgo

“Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...”

— morgan

I mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often.

— Ted Waitt

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

— Anonymous

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

— Mike Carey

Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.

— Colson Whitehead

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

— Ursula K. Le Guin