Book Quotes · Page 282

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

— Katie Leclerc

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

A book for cheap success will still be expensive because the way to success is always costly.

— Terry Mark

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

— Tessa Jowell

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

— Salman Rushdie

When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of…

— Chico Xavier

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and…

— Ida Tarbell

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for…

— Avi

I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just…

— Alice Cooper

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the…

— Daphne du Maurier

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed…

— Moliere

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of…

— Stephen King

“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us…

— David Connis

I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live…

— John Darnielle

“There’s something about a bookstore that is so calming. It’s a place where I feel like I belong, like everyone there is…

— AnnaLisa Grant

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can…

— Ridley Scott

“I gave Wang a copy of Joseph Campbell’s great book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, because he is a classic hero…

— Ray Dalio

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box,…

— Cornelia Funke

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to…

— Ludwig von Mises

Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it.…

— Jen Kirkman

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

— Richard Eder

“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.”

— Phillip Knight

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

— Iain Banks

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

— Lewis Carroll

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

— Gus Kenworthy

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

— William S. Burroughs

“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.”

— Donald J. Bingle

I'm an open book. People seem to like people that are very open - accepting, and not rude.

— Cupcakke

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

— Pete Wentz

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

— Mo Willems

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

— Elie Wiesel

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

— Chris Ware

Giving back or giving forward is the one true law of marketing.

— John Kremer

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt

“Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this”

— Haidji