Book Quotes · Page 254

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

— Harrison Ford

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

— Anonymous

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

— Katherine Paterson

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

— Jennifer Egan

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

“None of this seems real,” said Alice. “I’m like Alice in Wonderland. Remember how much I hated that book? Because nothing made…

— Liane Moriarty

No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so…

— Natasha Lyonne

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have…

— Gabriel Ba

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,

— Jacqueline Woodson

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material…

— Thomas Carlyle

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is…

— Maurice Sendak

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your…

— Leon Nacson

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it…

— Orhan Pamuk

What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not…

— Gabriel Zaid

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we…

— Alberto Manguel

I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,…

— Michael Uslan

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their…

— Edgar Allan Poe

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

— Caroline Mytinger

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for…

— Dick Bruna

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

— Saint Augustine

“another book is another dimension. another life full of imagination.”

— Kevin Armando

“The Book of Job depicted the discovery of the devil in deity.”

— Charlotte Spivack

My life is open book but I dont allow everyone to read it

— Hussein Nishah

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

— Joseph Stiglitz

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

— Aleister Crowley

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

— Galileo Galilei

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

— Karen Marie Moning

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

— George Bernard Shaw

“A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.”

— Amit Tiwari

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

— Jessamyn West

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson