Book Quotes · Page 247

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

— Steven Wright

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

— John Donne

“Finally! You're here!" Uh…Do I know you?" Well, no…But you're here, all the same...”

— Lynn Weingarten

“You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?”

— Rainbow Rowell

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it…

— Christopher Hampton

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,…

— Robert Hass

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians…

— Charlaine Harris

“Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.”

— Elizabeth George

I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The…

— Walter Mosley

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from…

— Matt Dillon

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

— Tom Peters

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was…

— Anonymous

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and…

— Peter Guber

Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis.…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of…

— Brad Meltzer

The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have…

— Martin Harris

As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain. Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell…

— Conan O'Brien

The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease,…

— Laura Mullen

Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly…

— Matthew Lewis

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long…

— Paulo Coelho

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

— Ursula Nordstrom

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

— Andy Andrews

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

— Narendra Modi

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

— Michael Morpurgo

I mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often.

— Ted Waitt

“Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...”

— morgan

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

— Mike Carey

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

— Anonymous

Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.

— Colson Whitehead