Book Quotes · Page 322

“You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.”

— Thulani Davis

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

— Haruki Murakami

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to…

— Sydney J. Harris

“i have read a couple of children's book. But this book is amazing”

— Anonymous

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

— Marilyn Manson

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

— Betty White

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

— Immanuel Kant

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

— Maria Semple

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,…

— Patti Smith

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

— Gina Barreca

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and…

— D. H. Lawrence

Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's…

— Frederick Lenz

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and…

— Andy Serkis

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but…

— Leah Price

“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final…

— Pamela Paul

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all…

— Michel Onfray

“I’m so sorry. I don’t think the etiquette manuals cover this sort of situation.” He leaned in close, his lips all but…

— Y.S. Lee

My process with starting a new project and whatnot is I begin around a title. Usually, based off of just a title,…

— Alexander Spit

We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and…

— T.C. Boyle

“I sit down by the river. Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous…

— Gabrielle Dubois

As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks -…

— Donna Tartt

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

— Carl Sandburg

Education is something that you know and get which is not in the book.

— Vikrant Parsai

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

— Jamais Cascio

I love to lose myself in other men's minds… Books think for me.

— Charles Lamb

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

— Malala Yousafzai

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

— Renee Watson

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

— Joe Queenan

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

— Brooke Fraser

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

— Walter Jon Williams

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

— Gillian Flynn

In the greatest chapter in your book, are there pages where it hurts to look?

— Blondie

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

— Barbara Corcoran

“You don't learn anything just by reading books. You learn only by receiving blows.”

— Swami Prajnanpad

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'

— Claire Fox

“I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.”

— Richard Denney