Book Quotes · Page 257

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

— Andrew VanWyngarden

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow…

— Lynda Barry

The judge threw the book at my man, judges like throwin books so I throw magazines.

— Papoose

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

— Bill Johnson

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

— LeVar Burton

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

— Ann Patchett

I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons,…

— Martin Luther

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a…

— Susannah Cahalan

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a…

— Jon Katz

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic…

— Holbrook Jackson

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool…

— Kevin Sampsell

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they…

— Nikki Giovanni

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging…

— Jenny Lawson

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was…

— Frank Herbert

When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and…

— Louise Hay

If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go…

— Melinda Gates

Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going…

— Mary Jo Salter

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when…

— Idina Menzel

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ MarkBaynard: [...] When you wrote yr 1st book, did U ever dream it was going to be welcomed by the world…

— Teresa Medeiros

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

— Lord Byron

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

— Dick Cavett

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

— Yuval Noah Harari

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

— Jonathan Daniels

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot , June 18, 2013)”

— Neil Gaiman

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different…

— Cornelia Funke

“Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.”

— Luther Blissett

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

— Michael Jackson

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do…

— Bob Dylan

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

Every new album for me is a blank book of stories to write.

— Laufey

“Even if the sum total of human knowledge is available online, a book is still a powerful thing.”

— M.H. Van Keuren

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

— Steven Moffat

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way…

— Al Seckel

“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.”

— Lionel Shriver