Book Quotes · Page 292

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

— Margaret Haddix

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

— Nicole Krauss

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

— Ice Cube

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

In my book, that's the most important thing: loving and taking care of your family.

— Teresa Giudice

“Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.”

— Jef Mallett

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore…

— Richard Russo

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself…

— Wilbur Smith

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Writing is enormously satisfying, a little difficult at times, but rewarding, especially when someone really loves the book - that is the…

— A.H. Richardson

Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time.…

— George Dyson

If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other…

— Charles R. Swindoll

The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the…

— Loretta Devine

Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can…

— Neil Gaiman

You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago,…

— Edward Leedskalnin

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life,…

— Salman Rushdie

“There is no book like the Qur’an. It quickens hearts and transforms lives, it leads whole people from glory to glory. It…

— Khurram Murad

We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a…

— Kerry James Marshall

“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“I'll illustrate the cover of your book for a million dollars. Wait, just let me find my crayons.”

— Ederyn Khushrenada

“There comes a time when you have to lay the book down, stop thinking, talking and planning, and start doing.”

— Karl Vaters

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like…

— Marlee Matlin

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

— Maggie Stiefvater

That book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought be added Will Apollo is an imbecile.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

— Bernie Taupin

My goal is to get better with each book, and I feel like I am.

— George Pelecanos

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

“yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”

— Cornelia Funke

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

— Geoff Dyer

One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

— Michael Heseltine

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

— Heinrich Heine