Book Quotes · Page 268

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

— Anonymous

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

— Ulysses S. Grant

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

— Terry Pratchett

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

— Masha Gessen

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

— Stephen Fry

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

— John Green

Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing…

— Uri Geller

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I…

— Tibor Fischer

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache…

— Ashwin Sanghi

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is…

— Diana Gabaldon

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd…

— David Levithan

Reading the final copy of my book was like walking down memory lane all over again. Sure, the writing process was emotional,…

— Gigi Gorgeous

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a…

— Milan Kundera

“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will…

— The Pocket University - Volume XXIII

They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity…

— Christopher Tolkien

The stories that confirm that bigger story are brought in and easily digested. But there's another set of stories that are always…

— Elliott Colla

I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to…

— Robert Kiyosaki

In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"…

— Stephen Greenblatt

For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat…

— Virginia Woolf

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the…

— James Joyce

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in…

— Jo Walton

“Is there a purpose to this visit, or may I return to my book?”

— Sarah J. Maas

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

— Nora Ephron

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

— Richard de Bury

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

— Karin Slaughter

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

— Simon Armitage

The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

— Stephen Colbert

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

— Anjelica Huston

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

— Eve Bunting

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

— Edward Abbey

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.

— Mary Wiseman

“She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.”

— Anonymous