Book Quotes · Page 318

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

— Salman Rushdie

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

— Richard Eder

A book for cheap success will still be expensive because the way to success is always costly.

— Terry Mark

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

— Tessa Jowell

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

— Iain Banks

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

— Lewis Carroll

“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.”

— Phillip Knight

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain…

— Avi Lewis

“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible…

— Christopher Isherwood

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and…

— Guy Browning

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is…

— Kate Zambreno

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who…

— James E. Faust

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the…

— Susan Stewart

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for…

— Jennifer Weiner

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on…

— Carlos Bulosan

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the…

— B. F. Skinner

Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write…

— Judith Viorst

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack…

— Julie Klausner

Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over…

— Paul Saffo

“Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuances, their faults, their loves, their lives.…

— Whimsical Enlightenment

The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book…

— Kelly McEvers

“The book wasn’t half bad. But only because I only read half of it.”

— Jarod Kintz

If you gone start something finish it, never close a book without finishing its chapter.

— Alyssa Tillmon

“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.”

— Melodie Ramone

Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles and the kinkiest fans!

— Christopher Moore

“I am the words of my book but sometimes I'm written wrong”

— Zeeuuusss

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

— Natalie Goldberg

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

— William Goldman

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

— Heinrich Heine

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

— Morley Callaghan

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

— Emeril Lagasse

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

— Rudy Rucker

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

— Lloyd Alexander

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

— Edward Abbey

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

— Jesmyn Ward