Book Quotes · Page 280

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

— Donalyn Miller

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

— Stephen Collins

“It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

— Stephen Chbosky

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

— Michael De Luca

As I do with all of my books, I outlined The Beach House from the beginning to end.

— James Patterson

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

— Tilda Swinton

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

— Alan Bennett

The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often…

— Swami Vivekananda

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good…

— Jim Bishop

“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like…

— John Green

“A book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet…

— Alec Hutson

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac…

— Northrop Frye

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a…

— Nick Clegg

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a…

— John Podhoretz

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“YOU WORK FOR THE KING, AND THAT CHANGES . . . EVERYTHING! That’s really the big idea of this book. No matter…

— Sebastian Traeger

Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty…

— Eric Foner

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You…

— Junot Diaz

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in…

— Khaled Hosseini

“If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But…

— John Steinbeck

“Thousands of Jews in the ghetto came to their library to borrow books. Reading gave both hope and consolation to the inhabitants,…

— Anders Rydell

Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book…

— Spike Milligan

I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or…

— Justin Theroux

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

— Clive Barker

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.

— Marjane Satrapi

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

— George R. R. Martin

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

— Robin Sloan

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

— Bill Vaughan

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.”

— Tom Robbins

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

— Sara Paretsky

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

— Jimmy Fallon

“Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing”

— Benjamin Franklin

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

— Tucker Max

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

— Brooks Robinson

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

— Elie Wiesel

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

— Joanne Harris

People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.

— Paul Gray

“What can I say? I like my books. Some guys like cars, some guys like women, I happen to like books.” He”

— Judy Wright

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

— Anonymous