Book Quotes · Page 236

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

— MaryJanice Davidson

“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”

— Ninni Holmqvist

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters.

— Damien Cantrell

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

— Harrison Ford

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

— Jean Webster

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

— Terry Pratchett

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys…

— Douglas Coupland

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer…

— James Ellroy

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist,…

— Brian Michael Bendis

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

— Salman Rushdie

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme,…

— Anne Rice

The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what…

— John C. Maxwell

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go…

— Dolly Parton

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of…

— Tara Brach

I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I…

— Angie Harmon

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most…

— Susan Choi

“What a joy this book is! I love recipe books, but it’s short-lived; I enjoy the pictures for several minutes, read a…

— Anonymous

I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,…

— Philip Roth

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that…

— Abraham Lincoln

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine…

— Don Novello

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

— Anonymous

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

— Katherine Paterson

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

— Jennifer Egan

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

— Ernie Harwell

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

— Lauren Oliver

“I’ll probably just read a book. I’ve got like a million of them in my to-be-read pile.”

— Rebekah L. Purdy

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

— Joanne Harris

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

— Wally Lamb

“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

— Marla Frazee

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do…

— Matthew Perry

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

— Andrew Sean Greer