Book Quotes · Page 320

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover You May Miss A Amazing Story

— Kiana JWilson

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

— Groucho Marx

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

— W. H. Auden

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

You can't always be by the book every single day of your life.

— Dacre Montgomery

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of…

— Anna Quindlen

“It’s a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.”

— Anonymous

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too…

— George Packer

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we…

— Laura Bush

The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing,…

— R. A. Torrey

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

— Neil Gaiman

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we…

— Laini Taylor

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired…

— Anonymous

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a…

— Anonymous

“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it…

— Henry B. Eyring

When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough…

— Malcolm X

It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet…

— Frances Osborne

She once said, 'I'm really a little prudish, which people may think incongruous'. I take a prudish point of view on certain…

— Karen Abbott

I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle…

— Bernie Finkelstein

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the…

— Chris Van Allsburg

The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

— Czeslaw Milosz

Look. All books are weird when you think about it… It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

— Kelly Link

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

— Mark Driscoll

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

— Maxwell Perkins

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

— Kami Garcia

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”

— T.S. Eliot

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

— Charles Fletcher Lummis

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day”

— Ashley Poston

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

— Liza Campbell