Book Quotes · Page 28

“Theur is no friend as loyal as a book.”

— Earnest

One must always be careful of books,

— Cassandra Clare

A book is not completed till it's read.

— Salman Rushdie

“The book is a key to open the human”

— Yanis Yingnan JI

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

— Jane Austen

Sometimes I'll read a book before bed.

— Pat Connaughton

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

— Anonymous

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

— Robin Sloan

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

— Louise Rosenblatt

“People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.”

— Millicent Ashby

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

— Kathleen Norris

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

— Barry Eisler

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

— Rebecca Stead

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

— Betty Dravis

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those…

— Herman Melville

“I’m working hard to edit my book, so I can get it up for sale so that nobody can rush out and…

— Jarod Kintz

“That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest…

— Thomas Geoghegan

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

— H. L. Mencken

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or…

— Cheryl Strayed

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix…

— Will Self

I read the book [ 'Middle School' ]! There was nothing specific really, I think everything in the film was great!

— Jacob Hopkins

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its…

— Stephen Leacock

I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write…

— Daniel Handler

On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he…

— Anonymous

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My…

— Frank Gehry

I had read a lot of books on World War II, but I didn't know that downed airmen had hiked over the…

— Megan Chance

What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind…

— Fernando Pessoa

“You have some lovely books," she said. "I like the one with the pictures of polar bears." "The books with words too…

— Barbara Elsborg

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But…

— Mary Roach

Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever…

— Daniel Gordis

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

— Rain Dove

What a blessing it is to love books.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

— Leila Slimani

Never judge a book without reading it first:P

— Mario Calderon

My house is filled with boxes of books.

— MC Ren

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

— Arthur Koestler

The virtue of books is to be readable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books make the soul float.”

— Alan Bradley