Book Quotes · Page 285

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

— Michael Urie

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

— Charles Fletcher Lummis

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day”

— Ashley Poston

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

— Liza Campbell

Through books we converse with the wisest and the greatest men of the past.

— Anonymous

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

— Josh Hutcherson

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

— Donna Tartt

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

— Neil Gaiman

If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation…

— Brian Regan

In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In…

— Dave deBronkart

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

— Frederick Lenz

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be…

— Geert Wilders

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read…

— Denise Mina

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a…

— Gaston Bachelard

I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among…

— Robert Caro

Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited - in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators,…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

“Who is the writer here? YOU ARE. Whose book is it? YOUR BOOK. There are no writing police. No one is going…

— Rachel Aaron

It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year…

— David Nicholls

I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book,…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal…

— Slawomir Cenckiewicz

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be…

— Nicholas Sparks

She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be…

— Henry Miller

“Books about books are a rare species, special tomes for writers and book lovers. More than an affirmation of taste, a book…

— Tom Cardamone

“Books aren't made of pages and words.Tehy are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.”

— Harlequin

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

— Kate Braverman

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

— Walter Mosley

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

— Harvey Mackay

“When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.”

— Brian McClellan

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

— Keith Miller

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

— David Strathairn

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

— Roddy Doyle

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

— Richard de Bury

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

— Anonymous

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

— Khushwant Singh

There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.

— Mike Colter

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

— Anthony Browne

“Live to learn and you'll learn to live. from the book 'I Know Who You Are!”

— Fatima Masood