Book Quotes · Page 238

I'd love to write a book called 'How to Raise a Virgin.' Seriously, I think a book about that would sell.

— Bert Kreischer

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

— Mario Quintana

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

— Annie Dillard

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word…

— Martin Luther

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

— Joe Sabia

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

— Anna Todd

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

— Nick Cave

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in…

— Colleen Hoover

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

— John Howe

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

— Colson Whitehead

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along.…

— Mavis Gallant

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and…

— Virginia Henley

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and…

— David Foster Wallace

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes…

— Wim Wenders

As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned,…

— Matt de la Pena

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long…

— Linda Sue Park

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a…

— Angie Thomas

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s,…

— Neil Jordan

So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30…

— Maria Popova

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider…

— Harold Monro

Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the…

— Dan Simmons

Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,…

— Laurence Sterne

“I have read the Bible, it has a lot of different interpretations. It is a book of codes.”

— Steven Magee

“Never judge a book by its cover, be the judge of what's inside. . .”

— Pearl

There are libraries waitng for u and those are only books

— Dan Brown

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

— John Tillotson

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

— Fran Lebowitz

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

— Emma Roberts

I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.

— Duff McKagan

I love putting on a candle, reading a book, and just taking a second for me.

— Jessica Long

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

— Jeffrey Archer

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

— Anonymous

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.

— Anonymous

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

— Penelope Keith

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

— A.M. Homes