Book Quotes · Page 303

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

— Mohsin Hamid

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

— Anne Waldman

“You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

— Mary Cantwell

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— Anonymous

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

— Edward P. Morgan

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just…

— Leni Zumas

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

— Paulo Coelho

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of…

— Nicole Kidman

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne…

— Peter Carey

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after…

— Miranda July

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare.…

— John Mortimer

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home…

— Ann Voskamp

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired.…

— Jonathan Kellerman

I've always remembered this quote from a book that I read as a kid. It was something along the lines of "What's…

— Russell Mulcahy

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights…

— Diane Frolov

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are…

— Mortimer Adler

Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring…

— Mark Twain

All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep…

— Stan Lee

In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang,…

— Darren Aronofsky

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with…

— Lance Armstrong

My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time…

— Sarnath Banerjee

“The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.”

— Sara Gruen

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

— Veronica Roth

“Don't let anything get in the way of reading a good book”

— Abby Noland

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

— Abi Morgan

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

“Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?”

— Will Schwalbe

The book which contains my autobiography, is wet since publication.

— Mak_786

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

— Christina Ricci

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

— Maria Dahvana Headley

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

— Daniel Finkelstein

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

— Paul McCartney

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

— John Gay

I think am the favorite BOOK of BillIONs of Readers and Song for few Blinds!

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

— Paul Laffoley

“I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.”

— John Connolly