Book Quotes · Page 304

“One book, printed in the Heart's own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stack's”

— Jan Luyken

“Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.”

— A.W. Tozer

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

— Patrick O'Brian

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

— Joseph Force Crater

Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.

— Neil L. Andersen

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

— William Shakespeare

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that …

— Bella Andre

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in…

— Charles Todd

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

— Lord Byron

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

— Enid Blyton

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of…

— E. L. Doctorow

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City…

— Anonymous

I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say,…

— Catherine Crier

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

— John Scott

Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start…

— Paul Newman

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I…

— Vivienne Westwood

You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and…

— Fanny Fern

My best-known book remains 'Henry and Clara,' a novel about the couple who were with the Lincolns at Ford's Theatre on April…

— Thomas Mallon

America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from…

— Woodrow Wilson

The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is…

— Stephen J. Binz

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it…

— Edmund White

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a…

— Ian Rankin

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and…

— Natalie Babbitt

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

— Celeste Ng

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

— Van Wyck Brooks

“Books are like music. Everyone has their own taste and it's not always for everyone.”

— Michael Benavidez

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

— Groucho Marx

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

— Lynda Barry

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

— John Hodgman

An actors real job is going on lots of auditions! When you book the job that's the fun part!

— Chloe Noelle

People who judge a book by its cover... That's the shit I don't like.

— Christine

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

— Seth Godin

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

— Julian Barnes

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

— Jimmy Carter

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

— Jason Jones

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'

— Alice Munro