Book Quotes · Page 288

You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite.

— Joan Rivers

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

— Tom Felton

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

— Robert Musil

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.

— Daphne Guinness

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

— Scott Hutchins

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

— Amanda Knox

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

— Judith S. Beck

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort…

— Michael Ian Black

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

— Mark Twain

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we…

— Alberto Manguel

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could…

— Kate Morton

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you…

— Dominique Swain

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books…

— Roger Angell

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you…

— Ruta Sepetys

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the…

— Blake Butler

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind…

— Marcel Proust

My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture,…

— N. K. Jemisin

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set…

— George Orwell

When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The…

— Stephen King

Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I…

— Brigham Young

I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“This is not a book about race, though the disproportionate number of those who fell that day were black, and certain racial…

— Gary Younge

“The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.”

— Umberto Eco

In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!

— Wim Wenders

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

“When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you”

— John van de Ruit

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

— Brian K. Vaughan

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

— Kellan Lutz

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

— Jennifer Egan

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

— Jean M. Auel

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

— Ha Jin

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

— Richard Flanagan

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

— David Liss

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

— Gene Luen Yang

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

— Sarah Addison Allen

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

— Anonymous

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

— Jonathan Swift

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

— J. C. Ryle