Book Quotes · Page 270

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

— Mason Cooley

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”

— Elizabeth Hunter

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

— Stephen Hawking

Please don't slap me, I'm a red blooded male and the book said I could not fail.

— Genesis

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

— Jacqueline Woodson

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The…

— Morris Kline

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only…

— Seth Godin

I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I…

— Jesse L. Martin

“I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a…

— Joe Queenan

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is…

— Charles Stross

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then…

— Truman Capote

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove…

— Brian Tee

The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that…

— Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and…

— Alex Haley

As a child I loved fantasy books, I loved Harry Potter and the idea that there is something 'out there' is inspiring…

— Alexandra Daddario

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the…

— Joshua Ferris

For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from…

— A'Lelia Bundles

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and…

— Philip Pullman

“Read the whole book, suffer it to tell even one of its secrets to your soul, and your soul will grow eager…

— Oscar Wilde

My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published -…

— Kresley Cole

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

— Michael Chabon

A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

— Raymond Chandler

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

— Hanna Rosin

“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.”

— Devonnie A. Black

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

— Christina Ricci

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

— Jay McShann

“I never found a book that did not have at least a little magic in it”

— William Ritter

“You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book”

— Emily Gowor

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

— P. L. Travers

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

— Jonathan Messinger

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

— Queen Victoria

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

— Danielle Steel

“No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.”

— Rachel Caine

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

— John Green