Book Quotes · Page 245

“Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

— Alberto Manguel

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

— Markus Zusak

If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a…

— Charles Manson

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

— Tom Peters

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

— Sean Durkin

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

— Khushwant Singh

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

— Henry Rollins

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind…

— Nicholas G. Carr

There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful…

— Kate DiCamillo

God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

— Macklemore

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have…

— Groucho Marx

There are many books in the library, each with its own story to tell. But as you fall in love, reality becomes…

— Boys Be

I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to…

— Mandy Moore

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under…

— Loretta Chase

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can…

— Clive Barker

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music…

— Stephen Fry

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,…

— Jeanette Winterson

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping…

— George Will

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the…

— Aga Khan IV

You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have…

— Ayana Mathis

Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school…

— Ines de La Fressange

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like…

— Mo Willems

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake… During…

— William Rathje

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

— Arthur Hertzberg

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.

— David Chiles

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

— A. Edward Newton

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers,

— Gale Anne Hurd

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

— Walter Raleigh

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

— J.A. Konrath

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

— Antonia Fraser

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

— Scarlett Johansson

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti