Book Quotes · Page 250

“Some people follow. Some people lead. Some kick back and smoke some weed… and breathe.”

— Vicki Perry

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

— Paul Auster

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

— Romain Rolland

“a book like this. I wish I had access to such a source”

— Anonymous

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

— Lauren Oliver

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

— Ernie Harwell

“I’ll probably just read a book. I’ve got like a million of them in my to-be-read pile.”

— Rebekah L. Purdy

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

— Wally Lamb

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I…

— Trent Lott

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me…

— Gretchen Rubin

I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out…

— Robert Benchley

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions…

— Bernard Cornwell

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…

— Martin Gardner

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the…

— Jimmy Barnes

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books…

— Rick Moody

You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You…

— Mary Wells Lawrence

Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr.…

— James Boswell

We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek…

— Sandra Cisneros

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,…

— Umberto Eco

She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug…

— Alice Munro

I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.…

— George Pelecanos

Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she…

— Deborah Smith

When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond…

— Jay Asher

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

— Joanne Harris

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

— Marla Frazee

“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do…

— Matthew Perry

“The truth is, my friend, you never know where a book will take you.”

— M. Scott Snelten

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.”

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

“Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?”

— Cassandra Clare

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

— Franka Potente

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

— Jerry Spinelli

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

— Maxim Gorky

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

— Ernie J Zelinski

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

— Maggie Stiefvater