Book Quotes · Page 269

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

— Jane Smiley

“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.”

— Molly MacRae

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though… This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

— Arvind Ethan David

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

— Lisa Murkowski

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

Any time you have any type of record in any record book, especially with the Lakers, it is pretty special.

— Kyle Kuzma

I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material…

— Max Lucado

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my…

— Gerard Way

The nurturing flow of life, extreme intelligence, beauty, and perfect harmony are active in every one of us. Yoga was developed in…

— Mark Whitwell

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there -…

— Joaquin Miller

“This book is like a supreme car which can drive the world to a new horizon. N.DAS Humans declared themselves masters of…

— Antonio Negri

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his…

— Maureen Corrigan

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the…

— Al-Shafi‘i

“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.…

— Ray Bradbury

always had the thought I could attract abundance. When I wrote the book Your Erroneous Zones back in the '70s, I absolutely…

— Wayne Dyer

Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid?…

— Tim Ferriss

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This…

— Pankaj Mishra

For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every…

— Harvey Pekar

I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was…

— Chuck Klosterman

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

“I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.”

— Ronald Sukenick

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with…

— Thomas Gray

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

— George Orwell

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

— John Steinbeck

Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.

— Simon Sinek

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

— Max Hastings

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett

Life has many different chapters for us...one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book

— Mercy Pheona

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to…

— Edward Klein

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

— Chinua Achebe

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore