Book Quotes · Page 296

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.”

— Mike Bove

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

— Irvine Welsh

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

— Mitch Albom

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as…

— Howard Stern

Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's…

— Stephen Cosgrove

I'm going to sound like an egomaniac, but I'm proud of so many things. I feel proud of my book, 'I'm Just…

— Tig Notaro

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it,…

— Kacey Musgraves

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but…

— George Washington Cable

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this…

— Leo Tolstoy

I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so…

— Hilary Mantel

The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the…

— Seth Godin

In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the…

— Elif Batuman

Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in…

— Josh Hutcherson

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes,…

— Fritz Zwicky

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the…

— Junot Diaz

[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

— Lee Child

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

— Malala Yousafzai

“The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior.”

— Richelle Mead

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

— Terence Stamp

Close the back cover of the book, move on and find something else to do.

— Ramandeep Singh

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

— Erica Bauermeister

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

— Christopher Morley

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

— Sam Amidon

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

— Spike Milligan

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

— Paul Auster

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

— Walter Mosley

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

— Anonymous

I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

— Ace Frehley

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

— Charles McGrath

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

— Bill Bryson