Book Quotes · Page 309

“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”

— Anonymous

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

— David McCullough

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

— Milton Glaser

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

— Edward Gorey

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

— Truman Capote

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

— Tove Lo

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

— Alberto Manguel

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles…

— Virginia Postrel

“These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. T will read the most personal tale you shall ever find…

— Anonymous

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave…

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“Anyone who has read a lot can tell you that the best ideas you take from a certain book often have nothing…

— Mark Manson

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about…

— Kevin Spacey

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I…

— Kate DiCamillo

Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they…

— Anne Bronte

We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set…

— Ibn Warraq

“But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts…

— Lauren Groff

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the…

— James Buchan

If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft…

— Will Durant

We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I…

— Betty Friedan

“Trump voters hate my books. They can't stand it when a book makes them think.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

My life has always been an open book and it's not such an eventful life.

— Randhir Kapoor

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

— Bryce Courtenay

“Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.”

— Justin Rohrlich Emmy Award Winner Head Writer Minyanville's World In Review

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

— Rose Quiello

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

— Julian Barnes

“Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.”

— Martin Edwards

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

— Cassandra King

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

— Amber Tamblyn

“I'm gonna read a book. From beginning to end. In that order.”

— George Costanza

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

— Oscar Wilde

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

— Philip Pullman

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

— Patti Smith

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

— Anonymous

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

— Ian Christe