Book Quotes · Page 243

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

— Bob Hope

Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

— Orlando Bloom

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

— Scott Carpenter

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

— William Gilbert

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

— George Whitman

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

— Liza Campbell

“Starting the day - Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own…

— Carew Papritz

A lot of the time with jobs that I've booked, immediately I'll read the breakdown, or I'll read the script, and I'm…

— India Eisley

“Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say…

— Toba Beta

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is…

— William Glasser

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

— Thomas Ehrlich

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you…

— Larry Heinemann

“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I…

— Charles Grodin

'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books, 'the plant, when established' ... Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden! For…

— Ursula Bethell

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh)…

— Jean Dubuffet

“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the…

— Dorothy B. Hughes

She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life…

— Jeremy Clarkson

“Before one knows it, he's nearly through with the book and then must continue so as to 'find out what happens at…

— Rust Hills

“Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

— Taiye Selasi

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

— Watty Piper

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

— Terry Pratchett

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

— Jasper Fforde

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

— James McCosh

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

“Remember that the first rule when editing a book is to DO NO HARM.”

— Shawn Coyne

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

— Kathy Acker

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

— Anonymous

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

— Anthony Storr