Book Quotes · Page 276

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

— Anonymous

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.

— Colson Whitehead

“Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

— Salman Rushdie

Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

— Wendy Mass

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something…

— John McEnroe

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new…

— Val McDermid

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later…

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I…

— Tyler Cowen

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be…

— Willa Cather

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at…

— Diana Gabaldon

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I…

— Annie Dillard

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to…

— Haruki Murakami

Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women.…

— P. L. Travers

The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to…

— Homer Hickam

What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen…

— Brandon Sanderson

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination,…

— Jacob Epstein

“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and…

— Rebecca Miller

I'm no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it's got everything: it's a book of…

— Tara Westover

Writers don't want to appear to be stupid. I don't know - maybe people become writers so that they can prove that…

— Lynne Tillman

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

— Zora Neale Hurston

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

— Louis Pasteur

“the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head.”

— Ruth Hogan

“It's all about the books. Please, somebody rein me in!”

— Terry Ech

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

— Nancy Spain

The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

— Markus Zusak

“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.”

— Lawrence Welk

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

— Jaylen Brown

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

— Ray Bradbury

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

— John Ruskin

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

— Colleen McCullough

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

— Mickey Spillane

“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

— Vivek Shraya

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

— May Sarton