Book Quotes · Page 297

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“reading books chronically understimulates the senses.”11”

— Nicholas Carr

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

— William Ralph Inge

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

— Carol Leifer

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

— Tessa Dare

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.

— Anonymous

One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner…

— Sarah Pinborough

I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a…

— Simon Sinek

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a…

— Lawrence Taylor

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin,…

— Marshall McLuhan

Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my…

— Miles Aldridge

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So…

— Dr. Seuss

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is…

— Guy Kawasaki

“an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be…

— Cornelia Funke

“The book, and the CDs, are taonga. The result of a mission by poets Jan Kemp and Jack Ross, they reproduce the…

— Jack Ross

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the…

— John Green

“This book has been so much fun to write, I have loved getting to know my animal characters even better! This is…

— Christine Skippins

“The moment I walk into a bookstore, I remember what I love about them. They are an oasis of intellectual calm. Perhaps…

— Michael Lopp

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any…

— Clarence Darrow

“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

— Orson Welles

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

— Ken Thompson

“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.”

— Henry Mosquera

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost…

— Paul Sweeney

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

— A.J. Ayer

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

— Mark Twain

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

— Kate Adie

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

— Andrea Dworkin

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

— Louis L'Amour

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

— Franz Kafka

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling