Book Quotes · Page 300

When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from…

— Rahul Gandhi

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

— Jim Woodring

A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

“Any self-help book in the world will tell you that you can’t just run your past away.”

— Krysten Ritter

“our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry - women of color”

— Rupi Kaur

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

— Winona Ryder

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being…

— Harold Bloom

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one…

— Karen Thompson Walker

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up…

— Paulo Coelho

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has…

— Pietro Aretino

I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about?…

— Dan Brown

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter,…

— Anonymous

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road,…

— James Ellroy

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

— Jan Tschichold

“The world is a book of many pages waiting to be read. The self is a library of ancient tomes written in…

— Gregory V. Diehl

By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my…

— Brigid Brophy

The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“One of the things I hear a lot from people is how they found my book, or how they’ve shared it with…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the…

— Rachel Kushner

You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction…

— Doug Graham

I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting…

— Daniel Cudmore

The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for…

— Elliott Abrams

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.”

— Liz Braswell

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

— Franz Kafka

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

— Anonymous

“You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.”

— Beatrice Colin

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

— Dave Ulrich

“If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.”

— Stephen Colbert

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

— Mary MacLane

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

“Arthur felt as though he were being read like a book, and wondered whether this girl would like his story.”

— Kiersten White

I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard.

— Immortal Tech

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

— Theodore Parker

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

— Matthew Carter

“No company like good books, especially the book of God.”

— Anonymous

“My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own. My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own!”

— Cas Lester

“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.”

— Geraldine Brooks