Book Quotes · Page 310

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

— Ernest Hemingway

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

— Joy Fielding

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

— Archie Manning

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

— Judy Garland

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

— Lev Grossman

I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.

— Marco Rubio

Never Judge a Book by it's Cover you may miss the Important Part.

— Earlene Michelle Robateau

[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there…

— Ann Plato

The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind…

— Lev Grossman

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow…

— Terry Pratchett

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it.…

— Karen Armstrong

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a…

— Patrick Dempsey

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of…

— Grenville Kleiser

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a…

— David Attenborough

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the…

— Jennifer Weiner

My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got…

— Willie Nelson

If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader…

— Douglas A. Martin

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I…

— Jane Goodall

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also…

— Richard Allington

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that…

— Ben Domenech

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time…

— Cory Doctorow

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which…

— James Oliver Curwood

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

— Simon Van Booy

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

— Shereen El Feki

“The only failed book is the one that was never written, out of fear-of-failure.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

— William Floyd

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

— Robert Breault

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The only drama I have time for is the kind between the covers of a book.”

— Rae

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

— Lev Grossman

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

— Anonymous

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

— Sharon Creech

“I am a bestselling author”, rather than “I will write a book next year.” Second,”

— James Thompson

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

— Markus Zusak

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

— Elaine Pagels

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

— George Pelecanos

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

— Agatha Christie

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

— David Brock