Book Quotes · Page 313

Books are as important to a fool as a mirror to a blind..

— Kshitij Roshan

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

— Meg Cabot

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

— Samuel Johnson

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

— George Gilfillan

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

— George MacDonald

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

— Neil Strauss

“It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career―it follows you and follows you and…

— Christopher Morley

“People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem,…

— Amit Kalantri

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as…

— Paul Theroux

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk…

— Ben Casnocha

I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food…

— Jack Monroe

The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If…

— Kresley Cole

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear…

— Martin Luther

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens…

— Clement Attlee

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles…

— Michael Connelly

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their…

— Tanith Lee

We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you…

— Shelby Steele

I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning…

— Chris Ware

“For me to read a book is still And always will be quite a thrill. For me to read a book is…

— Anonymous

I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside…

— Barbara Hamby

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look…

— Anonymous

'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride.…

— Linda Lael Miller

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

— Kenneth Oppel

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

— Barbara Tuchman

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

— Maurice Sendak

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

— Dick Wolf

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

— Steven Moffat

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

— Christoph Waltz

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

— Newt Gingrich

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

— Isaac Watts

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa...

— Beryl Markham

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

— Karin Slaughter

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for.

— Kenneth Turan

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

— Dean Koontz