Book Quotes · Page 246

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

— Saadi

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

— Henry James

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

— Karen Russell

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

— Alan Robert

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book…

— Jules Shear

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.

— Crystal Roby

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to…

— Lou Reed

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box…

— Lisa Jewell

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I love a book that makes me ask questions about what I think or how I see the world or how I…

— Rebecca Stead

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there…

— Terry Pratchett

As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books…

— Erwin McManus

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I…

— Jeff Pearlman

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto…

— Jodi Picoult

“From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was…

— Frederick Douglass

My questions did surprise some people. Others didn't bat an eye. That happens with all my books - I'll read them in…

— Laurie Keller

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck…

— Robert Jordan

As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe…

— Rachel Caine

As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers…

— Juan Williams

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks…

— David Nicholls

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

— Michael Dirda

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

— David Sedaris

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

— Antonio Tabucchi

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

— Jack Vance

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

— Brad Delp

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

“Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

— Thomas Carlyle