Book Quotes · Page 263

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

— LeBron James

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

— John C. Maxwell

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

— Terry Pratchett

“No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied.”

— C.S. Lewis

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.

— Christopher Priest

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span,…

— Al Roker

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check…

— Ryan Reynolds

“A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I thought a book demystifying menstruation and talking about the simple biology of it would go a long way in making young…

— Tisca Chopra

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I…

— Frederick Buechner

“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections…

— Masha Hamilton

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

— Barbara Pym

If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else…

— Naomi Wolf

By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read…

— John Krasinski

Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies,…

— Naomi Judd

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular…

— Albert Einstein

Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to…

— Fran Lebowitz

A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a…

— Mo Willems

Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

— George Plimpton

Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of…

— Daniel Cudmore

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

— G. H. Hardy

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before…

— Rose Tremain

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

— Diane Setterfield

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

— Anonymous

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

— Sarah Dessen

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

— John Wesley

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

— Lev Grossman

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

— Kid Rock