Book Quotes · Page 283

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

— Jesmyn Ward

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

— Eleanor Porter

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

— John M. Ford

“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.”

— Margarita Engle

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

— Jim Fergus

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

— Francois Mauriac

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep…

— Robert K. Massie

If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden…

— Sarah Palin

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with…

— Deb Caletti

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book…

— Richard Dawkins

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with…

— Galileo Galilei

Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was,an infection.

— Anne Sexton

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does.…

— Siri Hustvedt

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry…

— Georgie Henley

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library…

— Jess Walter

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we…

— Brandon Sanderson

Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage…

— Mindy Kaling

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to…

— Joe Queenan

When I was little I used to wish I could talk to the illustrators because I wanted to discuss something about the…

— Jan Brett

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was…

— Lauren Conrad

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours…

— Anna Quindlen

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

— Sterling W Sill

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

— Gaston Bachelard

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

— Mark Driscoll

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

— Maxwell Perkins

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”

— T.S. Eliot

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

— Kami Garcia

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh

You can't always be by the book every single day of your life.

— Dacre Montgomery

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of…

— Anna Quindlen

Look. All books are weird when you think about it… It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

— Kelly Link