Book Quotes · Page 315

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

— Jodi Picoult

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

— David Shields

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

— Paulo Coelho

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

— Nora Barnacle

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women…

— Rufus Wainwright

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the…

— Brent Weeks

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a…

— J. C. R. Licklider

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

— Jon Foreman

I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they…

— James Patterson

I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want…

— Cassie Steele

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have…

— Ray Bradbury

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books,…

— Salman Rushdie

In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,…

— Dan Carter

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts…

— Douglas Kennedy

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or…

— Lance Burton

Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible,…

— Gloria Steinem

One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy…

— Sandra Cisneros

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling…

— Susan Hill

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it…

— George Soros

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

— Sara Sheridan

“This book is dedicated to everyone who has ever been told they can’t. Let’s jump off the cliff together.”

— Christine Zolendz

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

— John Lydon

Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

— Antonia Fraser

I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.

— Daryl Davis

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

— Junot Diaz

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

— Scatman Crothers

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

— Abraham Lincoln

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

— Maria Rodale

“The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.

— Roberto Carlos