Book Quotes · Page 253

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

— Jim Rohn

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

— Jan Karon

Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

— Jen Kirkman

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

— Leona Rostenberg

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

— Dylan O'Brien

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

— Lewis Buzbee

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful…

— Simone Elkeles

“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for…

— Rebecca Raisin

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book…

— Marcia Gay Harden

That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason…

— Anthony Lane

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the…

— Albert Ellis

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

— Henry David Thoreau

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet…

— Henry Miller

The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that…

— Marianne Williamson

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting…

— Terry Pratchett

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump…

— Florence King

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else.…

— Seth Godin

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people…

— Ann Patchett

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells…

— Warren G. Harding

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,…

— William Morris Hunt

“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”

— Anonymous

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

— Henry James

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

— Alice Walker

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

— Simon Singh

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

— George Hamilton

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

— Linda Lael Miller

In my life, she was a chapter. In her life, I was an entire book.

— Raghib Clitso

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Ed Byrne

“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”

— Ninni Holmqvist

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

“Every book tells a story, so you better be ready for the adventure.”

— Jessica Kinney

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

— MaryJanice Davidson

If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters.

— Damien Cantrell

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

— Jean Webster

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia