Book Quotes · Page 305

“Quit Believing in Lies and Always Search For the Truth!”

— Charleston Parker

In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

— Alix Kates Shulman

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

Loving you is a thing that I can never stop in my life, so lets be two volumes in one book.

— Anonymous

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

It is not the text book but the text people that make a difference in the lives of children.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

— Jason Biggs

Mistake is a single page of life but relation is a complete book. So dont lose a full book for a single…

— Anonymous

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that…

— Nick Cave

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and…

— John Pilger

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have…

— Mark Haddon

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

— Judy Blume

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

— Esther Meynell

“There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its…

— Astrid Yrigollen

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book…

— Robert Littell

“How a human being could have attempted such a book [Wuthering Heights] as the present without committing suicide before he had finished…

— George R. Graham

“Finally, I dedicate this book to God, my Creator. May the life You created and gave me have a positive impact on…

— Ken Poirot

I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that…

— Victoria Aveyard

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they…

— Judy Blume

Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is…

— Michael Koryta

I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it…

— Matthew Quick

I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books,…

— Lena Dunham

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

— Alec-Tweedie

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

— Paul McCartney

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

— Mark Twain

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

— Albert J. Nock

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

— Robin Sloan

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

Mrs. Palin has neither pushed for creationism in Alaska schools nor moved to ban a single book in Wasilla.

— Andrew Breitbart

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

— Cornelia Funke

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

— Sabaa Tahir

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

— Rebecca West

“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.”

— Martin Booth

Don't criticise what you can't understand,don't judge a book by its cover, you may miss out on a good STORY

— Anne Nwakama