Book Quotes · Page 312

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Life is like a book. You read one page at a time, and hope for a good ending.”

— J.B. Taylor

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.

— Lionel Shriver

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

— Tracy Chevalier

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

— Vincent Starrett

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

— Richard Denney

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

— Anonymous

Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.

— John Zorn

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski…

— Elizabeth George

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The first thing I do when I book a fight is I go to the Internet and I print out a picture…

— Chris Weidman

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And…

— Alexander Pope

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of…

— Nicholson Baker

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's…

— Karin Slaughter

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on…

— Jim Bakker

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than…

— Marina Warner

I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book,…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made…

— Simon Jenkins

Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just…

— George MacDonald

Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books... Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress…

— Barack Obama

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever…

— Kathy Acker

Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians…

— William M. Fowler

Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of…

— Peter Coyote

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

— Arnold Bennett

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a…

— Philip Reeve

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

— Jasper Fforde

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

— Markus Zusak

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

— Emily Watson

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

— Charlie Trotter

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

— Alaa Al Aswany

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

— Richard Russo

“Yes, it’s true that you can’t learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.”

— Jessica Zafra

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

— Virginia Woolf

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

— Dawn Addams

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite…

— John Banville

“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped.”

— Tarryn Fisher

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan