Book Quotes · Page 273

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

— Ford Madox Ford

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

— Flannery O'Connor

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

— Emil Ruder

“Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!”

— Michele Lynn Seigfried

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

— Peter Sotos

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

— Anonymous

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great…

— Kit Carson

“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island…

— Mary Stolz

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped…

— Scott McClanahan

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection…

— Julianna Baggott

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

— Phyllis Diller

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law,…

— Herbert Hoover

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each…

— Matthea Harvey

Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin…

— Jay Leno

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a…

— Maria Dahvana Headley

I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about…

— Elizabeth Crook

“One early challenge was that the book distributors required retailers to order ten books at a time. Amazon didn’t yet have that…

— Brad Stone

I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness…

— Roger Housden

But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have…

— Malorie Blackman

I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or…

— Elif Batuman

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

— Harry S. Truman

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

— Anton Chekhov

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

— Samuel Johnson

“CUSTOMER: Oh, look, these books are all signed. (Pause) I wonder who signed them ?”

— Jen Campbell

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

— arthur schopenhauer

If he wins a fourth Super Bowl, he's the greatest ever in my book.

— Michael Irvin

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

— Sebastian Horsley

“Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.”

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

My life's a book; I've got a bunch of different chapters.

— Phil Murphy

“Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .”

— David Shields

All the stuff we have to edit out of our music, we put in our kids book.

— Tom Fletcher

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

— Frederick Philip Grove

It is okay to judge a book by its cover, as long as you open it up to see what's inside.

— Jhiess Krieg

Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.

— Steven Tyler