Book Quotes · Page 311

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

— Brian Posehn

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

— Dennis Miller

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

— Adriana Trigiani

“Life's book is hard to understand; Why couldst thou not remain at school?”

— Charles Hanson Towne

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

— Edward Abbey

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

— Trent Reznor

I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?'

— Justin Moore

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things…

— Kate DiCamillo

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was…

— Iain Banks

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books--…

— Edmund Spenser

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in…

— Judith Viorst

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have…

— Penelope Spheeris

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be…

— Sara Zarr

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning…

— Peter Mayle

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I…

— Philip Pullman

Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through…

— Michele Jaffe

Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I…

— Mike Birbiglia

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things…

— Agnes Smedley

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and…

— Winston Churchill

“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present…

— Elvira Baryakina

About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed…

— Brian D. McLaren

I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves?…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind…

— Janet Morris

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

— Mary J. Blige

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S

— Zakir Naik

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

— Tom Robbins

You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

— Caleb Plant

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

— Frank Kermode

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

— Norma McCorvey

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

— Daniel Kahneman

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

— Shannen Doherty

“There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.”

— John Grisham

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

— George W. Bush

“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.”

— Peggy Rathmann

“Life is an open book as far as potential is concerned.”

— Steven Redhead