Book Quotes · Page 251

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very…

— Richard Armitage

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

— Lois Lowry

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it’s up to writers to change things.”

— Tim Holtorf

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

— Katharine Weber

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

— Harper Lee

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

— Jon Krakauer

“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”

— Geoffrey Wood

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I…

— Anthony Browne

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none…

— Anne Lamott

“It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families,…

— Bob P. Buford

I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file.…

— E. J. Dionne

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken…

— Mark Millar

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

— Jack Canfield

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that…

— Sara Sheridan

... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss…

— Stan Lee

I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will…

— Jack Canfield

I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white…

— John C. Bogle

Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't…

— Walt Mossberg

This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to…

— David Guterson

“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest…

— Jazz Feylynn

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to…

— David McCullough

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,

— Tom Clancy

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

— John Green

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film.”

— Deyth Banger

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books…

— Jorge Luis Borges

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

— Walter Benjamin

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

— Thomas Love Peacock

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for…

— Arnold Bennett

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

— Hugh Nibley

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

— Kevin Sessums

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

— Caleb Reese

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

— Robert Fulghum

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

— Neil Strauss

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

— Regina Doman