Book Quotes · Page 307

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

— Kristen Stewart

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.

— Richard K. Morgan

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

— Ruskin Bond

“Books are written little by little...as the cat eats the fish.”

— Lynda K. Scott

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

— Patti Smith

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

— Michael Moorcock

I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book.

— Jason David Frank

An e-book is not a physical book. That point might seem trite until you stop for a moment to think how much…

— Maria Konnikova

Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the…

— Cassandra Clare

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it…

— R. C. Sproul

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

— Mary Karr

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,'…

— Lecrae

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures…

— T. S. Eliot

“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your…

— Welwyn Wilton Katz

Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries…

— John Wilson

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk…

— John Grisham

There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That’s the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the…

— Lisa Randall

Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was…

— Marina Warner

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when…

— Nick Hornby

“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute…

— Stephen King

I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to…

— Fanny Burney

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

— Markus Zusak

“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.”

— J.R. Ward

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

— Michael Ignatieff

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

— Anonymous

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

— Blaise Pascal

“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.”

— Joe Queenan

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

— Orhan Pamuk

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

— Saint Augustine

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

— Anonymous

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

— Patrick Ness

“Cave ab homine unius libri. (Fear the man of one book)”

— Anonymous Latin

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

— Louisa May Alcott

“A good book, Marcus, is a book you are sorry to have finished.” The”

— Joël Dicker