Book Quotes · Page 316

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

— Jean M. Auel

“When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you”

— John van de Ruit

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

— Kellan Lutz

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

— Brian K. Vaughan

“The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.”

— John Daniel

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

— Robert Musil

You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite.

— Joan Rivers

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge…

— Cassandra Clare

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have…

— Franka Potente

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time,…

— Peter Orner

'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day…

— David Cage

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will…

— John Wesley

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American…

— Lisa Scottoline

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I…

— Tom T. Hall

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you…

— Matt Cain

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully…

— Alexander Osterwalder

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite…

— Michael Cunningham

When I published a book earlier this year about Uber, the most common question I got about it was how many of…

— Adam Lashinsky

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature…

— Emily Saliers

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant…

— Christopher Hitchens

John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for…

— Joel Osteen

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

— Tom Felton

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

— Scott Hutchins

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.

— Daphne Guinness

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.”

— James Jeffrey Roche

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

— Alex Ferguson

“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.”

— DENNIS SEDDON

“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

— Ray Bradbury

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

— Mahatma Gandhi