Book Quotes · Page 317

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

— Cynthia Voigt

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

“You have to learn to look at the whole of something, not just the parts.”

— Marie Lu

If you we're a library book, I would never bring you back.

— Chloe

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

— Nikki Giovanni

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

— Jonathan Swift

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

— Anonymous

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

— J. C. Ryle

“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes…

— Neil Gaiman

I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders…

— Ivan Doig

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and…

— Matthew Specktor

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in…

— Billy Burke

“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would…

— Dai Sijie

Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and…

— Nancy Kassebaum

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I…

— Dan DeCarlo

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

“We are all poor; but there is a difference between what Mrs. Spark intends by speaking of 'slender means', and what Stevens…

— Frank Kermode

Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as…

— Andrew Sean Greer

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30…

— Haruki Murakami

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

Facebook, what book? Slutbook? They need to call this F-ckbook. Picture looking good, but in person¦Yuckbook. Hellbook, Tellbook, bitches cant Spellbook. Hate…

— Anonymous

I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger…

— Jan Brett

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

— Marissa Mayer

Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

— John Milton

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

— Mem Fox

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

— Wendy C. Ortiz

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

— David Liss

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

— Ha Jin

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

— Richard Flanagan

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

— Gene Luen Yang

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

— Sarah Addison Allen

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

— Gus Kenworthy

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

— William S. Burroughs

“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.”

— Donald J. Bingle

I'm an open book. People seem to like people that are very open - accepting, and not rude.

— Cupcakke

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

— Katie Leclerc

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein