Book Quotes · Page 279

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'

— Claire Fox

“Maybe I could find a book to help me beat my book-buying addiction.”

— Trace Riles

There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.

— E. Nesbit

You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

— Nicole McKay

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

— Ali Sina

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

— Wallace Stevens

In the greatest chapter in your book, are there pages where it hurts to look?

— Blondie

Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have…

— Virginia Woolf

How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New…

— Bill Maher

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian…

— Margaret Mahy

I started these Rush Revere and these children's books, I mean, there was a mission. It was to teach the truth of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

— Edmond Jabes

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life,…

— Alison Weir

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all…

— Zadie Smith

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and…

— Ray Bradbury

The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of…

— Robert Pollok

What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,…

— Frederick Lenz

She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed…

— Maya Banks

This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,…

— Joseph Auslander

Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees…

— Ted Kooser

“The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I do a lot of research for my books. I can't possibly know all the things I write about and I love…

— Linda Conrad

If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures…

— Stanley Greenspan

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

— Barbara Corcoran

“You don't learn anything just by reading books. You learn only by receiving blows.”

— Swami Prajnanpad

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

— Brooke Fraser

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

— Joe Queenan

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

— Walter Jon Williams

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

— Gillian Flynn

I wanted to write a book for children about animals that would be factual, different, fun and varied.

— Michaela Strachan

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

— David Platt

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

— Walt Disney

We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored

— Jim Rohn

“My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.

— Kia Carrington-Russell

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

— Amanda Hocking

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

— Jory John

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

— Louis B. Mayer

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin