Book Quotes · Page 290

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

— Claud Cockburn

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

— Jeanette Winterson

The people who says, the book is better than the movie, are fucking assholes.

— Nikhil Saluja

I tell people life is like a book being written by heavenly hands that we can't see.

— Danny Gokey

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

— Dave Eggers

It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.

— Charles Bock

I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

— Adam Sandler

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

— Dodie Smith

People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's…

— John M. Ford

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises…

— John P. Marquand

Human rights groups around the world, certainly sees that Saddam Hussein makes Slobodan Milosevic, who is a war criminal, look like a…

— Curt Weldon

The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know…

— Hamza Yusuf

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but…

— Ross Kemp

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they…

— James A. Michener

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is…

— Lea Salonga

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their…

— W. H. Auden

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of…

— Rick Yancey

Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the…

— Nancy Gibbs

“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men…

— Paul Collins

The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely…

— Lord Acton

When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young…

— Rhys Ifans

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated…

— Camille Paglia

And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do…

— Norton Juster

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe…

— Hugo Hamilton

“Wait, I'm sorry, but how do you not read books? Like-what do you do on planes?”

— Morgan Matson

“The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.”

— Mike Schmoker

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

— David McCord

“I'm a big fan of the local library. I just read a book, but that's another story.”

— British Sea Power

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

— Mark Ravenhill

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves…

— Alice Hoffman

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

— Chris Rock

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne

“The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.”

— Anonymous

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...

— Judy Blume

In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.

— William Romaine

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

— Anne Fadiman

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

— Jason Reynolds

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

— Andy Hargreaves