Book Quotes · Page 287

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

— Anonymous

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

— Winona Ryder

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

— Studs Terkel

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

— Barbara Hambly

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

— Jean Fritz

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

“To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.”

— J. R. Moehringer

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

— Aerin Lauder

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the…

— Steve Vai

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as…

— Thomas Perry

I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive…

— Stephen Amell

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

— Neil Gaiman

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a…

— Idries Shah

When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried…

— Pat Conroy

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his…

— Walter Benjamin

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a…

— Mindy Kaling

To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on…

— Erik Larson

“If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left…

— Eric Dinerstein

My family sits around and tells all these amazing stories of pirates and the wa. Then one day I'm having a beer…

— Anh Do

The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's…

— Jeanette Winterson

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald…

— Sophie Kinsella

With climate change, of course there are things to grieve. I certainly grieved that the vision that I had for my life,…

— Margaret D. Klein

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk…

— Paulo Coelho

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

— Anonymous

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

— Sara Sheridan

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

— Patrick Ness

Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.”

— James Jeffrey Roche

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

— Alex Ferguson

“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.”

— DENNIS SEDDON

“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

“It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.”

— John Daniel

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot