Book Quotes · Page 272

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

— Anonymous

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

— Glen Cook

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

— Thomas Paine

Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.

— Mohammed Hanif

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

— Rebecca Wells

“I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...”

— Margaret Westhaven

Based on paper, because of my size, a lot of promoters and hole-in-the-wall indies will book me against the local big guy.

— Brian Cage

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

— Isabel Allende

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I…

— Ray Bradbury

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to…

— David Levithan

You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a…

— Josh Prince

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for…

— Sarah Addison Allen

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged…

— Jim Gaffigan

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is…

— Nora Ephron

“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study…

— Boris Gunjević

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough…

— Bruce Dern

I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev."…

— Ilona Andrews

“To write books is easy, it requires only pen and ink and the ever-patient paper. To print books is a little more…

— Stanley Unwin

It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the…

— Sloane Crosley

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect…

— Richard Meltzer

“Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their…

— Christian Lander

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other…

— Anonymous

“this book. I will try to repay all of you with sustenance”

— Amy Tan

“A world without books would be a world not worth living in.”

— Eugenia Argerami

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many…

— Joseph Joubert

“A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.”

— Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson

“This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism.”

— Jerry Stahl

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Like, if I want to know about France, I'll buy the book I don't know if that makes me a moron.

— Richey Edwards

There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.

— Patricia Leavy

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

— James Franco

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

— Margaret Drabble

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

hey guys i would like you to try this book you will love it!

— Jeff Kinney

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

— George Carlin

I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.

— Jennifer Egan

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

— Genndy Tartakovsky