Book Quotes · Page 260

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

— Dave Barry

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

— Yunus Emre

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

— David Levithan

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited…

— Ellen Goodman

“If I am willing to read a book in its entirety, I will give it five stars. I do not list books…

— Paula Shene

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is…

— William Shakespeare

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them.…

— Jason Robert Brown

My first taste of theater was my middle school play. We did 'The Jungle Book.' I auditioned for Mowgli, which I didn't…

— Cody Simpson

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to…

— Marcel Proust

“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative…

— Namita Gokhale

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that…

— James Randi

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part…

— Aberjhani

I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New…

— William Monahan

“A foreign publisher of my first book [ The Selfish Gene ] confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after…

— Richard Dawkins

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is…

— Mitch Albom

I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a…

— Chad Harbach

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV…

— Denise Duhamel

I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created…

— Swami Vivekananda

When people say don't judge a book by its cover that's complete bullshit...reality didn't hit them yet.

— Anonymous

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

— Lewis Hamilton

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

— Azar Nafisi

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

— Kristin Hannah

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book”

— Colleen Hoover

“Sometimes authors treat their books are burgers. More they want to sell, more spices they put in.”

— Sudhir Mittalittal

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

— Solomon

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

— Marc Bolan

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

— Jonathan Lethem

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to…

— George MacDonald

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

— Anonymous