Book Quotes · Page 295

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

— Jane Fallon

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

— Annie Barrows

“God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

— Lois Lowry

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

— Francis Collins

“(Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen.”

— Cindy Woodsmall

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

— Malcolm X

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the…

— Charles Stross

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and…

— Shel Silverstein

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of…

— Jack Paar

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability…

— Will Estes

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good…

— Jackie Collins

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No…

— Diana Gabaldon

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

— William Drummond

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons…

— Anonymous

As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand…

— Deb Caletti

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could…

— Emily Croy Barker

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once…

— Kamala Harris

This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that…

— Thomas Pogge

The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various…

— Hans H Wellisch

A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let…

— Elliott Colla

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

“Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.”

— William Wordsworth

“People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

— Lynne Rae Perkins

I'd love to be involved in the process of adapting a book to a script, but that's simply not my job.

— Hero Fiennes-Tiffin

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

— Amish Tripathi

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and…

— Michiel Huisman

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

— Zoe Kazan

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

— Anonymous

I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends.

— Sean Payton

“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson