Book Quotes · Page 314

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

— John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

— Gerald Durrell

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

— Dean Devlin

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school.

— Rebecca Serle

“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

— William Shakespeare

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New…

— Augustus De Morgan

Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you…

— Nora Ephron

“So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out…

— Roald Dahl

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made,…

— Ben Nicholson

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it…

— Elena Ferrante

We're always quick to judge an open book, sometimes it pays to read between the lines, a lesson to be learnt only…

— Jasmina Siderovski

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we…

— Ramona Koval

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out…

— Willie Nelson

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was…

— Anthony Holden

“I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself…

— Thomas Merton

“...I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what…

— Kate Egan

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze…

— Michael Ondaatje

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come…

— Virginia Woolf

“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the…

— Tracy K. Smith

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

— Adam Young

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

— Umberto Eco

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

— Markus Zusak

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

— Stephen Chbosky

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

— Tracy Chevalier

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

— Anonymous

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

— Charles Wright

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

— Barack Obama

“But holding a book always puts me at ease, knowing a happy ending is between my fingertips.”

— Jenni L. Walsh

“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.”

— Brandt Legg

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

— Neil Gaiman

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

— Edith Roosevelt

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

— Laurie Halse Anderson