Book Quotes · Page 294

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

— Norman Douglas

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

— Wayne Dyer

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

— Bill Watterson

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day.

— Ryan North

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

— Paracelsus

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think…

— Stephen Chbosky

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in…

— Harper Lee

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

You can try and read me like a book but Ill slam the cover closed. Ive got secrets in my pages that…

— Anonymous

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the…

— Tasha Alexander

“Regret and celebration are equally important facets of aging. Throughout this book, these two aspects will appear in various guises and voices.…

— Lewis Richmond

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out…

— Ruth Glick

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“the passage of this book to those ready for the instruction will attract the attention of such as are prepared to receive…

— Three Initiates

I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text,…

— Dinty W. Moore

Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for…

— Claire Messud

I have all of Elizabeth Lowell's first editions. I love these books. They are among my most treasured possessions. I have carried…

— J.R. Ward

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and…

— Mark Haddon

They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her…

— Neal Stephenson

Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the…

— Toni Morrison

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

— Brad Feld

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

— Ken Blanchard

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

— Ruskin Bond

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

— Henry David Thoreau

“I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.”

— Bridget

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

— Christopher Castellani

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

— Jodi Picoult

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

— Chris Rock

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.

— Zachary Levi

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

— Luis von Ahn

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take away from it.”

— James Bryce

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley