Book Quotes · Page 291

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

— Calvin Trillin

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

— Margaret Fuller

“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.”

— Anna Jae

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

— Valerie Miner

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

— Anonymous

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

— Anne Frank

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational…

— David E. Cooper

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really…

— Ann Goldstein

“The mark of a good book is that you're happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is…

— Derek Thompson

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a…

— Meredith Brooks

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a…

— Emile Hirsch

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would…

— Anonymous

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote,…

— James Altucher

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I…

— Irving Stone

So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm…

— John Irving

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And…

— Dan Brown

“Despite its many layers, I THIRST is a simple tale. I have truly been honored by the positive feedback for my little…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the…

— Philip Pullman

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed…

— Charles de Lint

I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it…

— Elaine Equi

I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you.

— Mary H.K. Choi

“Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?”

— Paperback Writer Beatles

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

— Claudia Christian

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

— Anne Fadiman

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

— Daniel Kahneman

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of…

— Lev Grossman

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

— George William Curtis

“people who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

— Cheryl Lynn

“IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE”

— Charleston Parker

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

— Abraham Lincoln

“I just wrote the book of love. Well, I coauthored it with Cupid and Nicholas Sparks.”

— Jarod Kintz

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

— Barbara Cartland

“Every book read with pleasure up to its end deserves a five star rating.”

— Niovi Lyri