Book Quotes · Page 237

“IF YOU HAVE EVER LOOKED IN THE MIRROR AND HATED WHAT YOUSAW,THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.”

— Jackie Morse Kessler

“Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression”

— L. Neal

“Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

— R. L. Stine

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival

— Nora Gallagher

Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.

— Sudha Chandran

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make…

— Drew Houston

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is…

— Bell Hooks

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women…

— Aisha Tyler

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or…

— Robert Greene

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a…

— Jonathan Lethem

I've been really lucky to get on shows that stay on. It's one thing to book a show, and it's like winning…

— Coby Bell

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

— Lily Cole

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss…

— Peter Orner

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and…

— George Saunders

I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans,…

— Kathleen Hanna

I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully…

— Colleen Coble

Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in…

— Narendra Modi

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big…

— Joseph Campbell

To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

— Mireille Guiliano

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

— Colum McCann

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

— Stewart O'Nan

“There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

— Esther McVey

“You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.

— Edward Norris Kirk

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

— William Butler Yeats

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

— Henry David Thoreau

“And this book is - instead of my body, And this word is - instead of my soul.”

— Anonymous

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

— Leslie Banks

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

— Emilia Clarke

“with the book on my knee , i was happy ,i feared nothing except interruption.”

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book.

— Sal Khan

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

— Robert Smith