Book Quotes · Page 241

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

— Margaret Atwood

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

— John Green

“The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”

— L.J. deVet

“The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!”

— Laura Beth

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

— Emily Ratajkowski

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore

“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“At some point though I need to stop cataloguing them or I’ll never get this book finished.”

— Joe Cater

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive,…

— Flannery O'Connor

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is…

— Jarvis Cocker

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for…

— Ishmael Reed

I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers…

— Andy Partridge

I grew up a fan of comics and hanging out in local comic book stores, talking to the store manager and seeing…

— Aidan Gallagher

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

— C. S. Lewis

“The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside…

— Alan Jacobs

One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word -…

— George Saunders

One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have…

— Bill Ayers

I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had…

— Christopher Meledandri

Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So…

— Tenzin Palmo

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in…

— Marcus G Monroe

A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high…

— Brian Hodge

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in…

— Miguel Syjuco

“To be on the same page, we need to be in the same book.”

— Rahul Guhathakurta

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

— Jessie Cave

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

— Neil Gaiman

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep…

— Morgan Freeman

The book Since the publication of my autobiography which was featured till today are moist

— Mak_786

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to…

— Rebecca Mead

“A book that I would recommend for everyone: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

— Skloot

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

— Scott Cunningham

i really like kingdom hearts its like the best book ever

— Shiro Amano

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

— Edward P. Jones

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

— Thomas Harris

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

— Lewis Carroll

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days.

— Tony Ross

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

— K.J. Parker

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

— Anonymous