Book Quotes · Page 324

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

— David Platt

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

— Walt Disney

We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored

— Jim Rohn

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

— George Johnson

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

— Jo Walton

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

— Mannie Fresh

“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.”

— Derrolyn Anderson

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…

— Alberto Manguel

“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the…

— Muriel Spark

I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was…

— Celeste Ng

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book.…

— Elvis Presley

Now what I do is I manage that decision. And I teach them in the book how - know what decision to…

— John C. Maxwell

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good…

— Nigel Dennis

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

— Garth Brooks

“Stalked He stalks her waiting for the right time, a single purpose stirring within his mind. His soul longs for that one…

— J.L.Clayton

This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified…

— Eckhart Tolle

Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever…

— Ray Bradbury

I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write…

— Melissa Febos

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake.…

— Michael Connelly

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's…

— Jennifer Weiner

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the…

— Anonymous

“Brian: I love books Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?”

— David Nicholls

“The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.”

— Anonymous

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

— Peter Sotos

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

— Elie Wiesel

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

— Joanne Harris

People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.

— Paul Gray

“What can I say? I like my books. Some guys like cars, some guys like women, I happen to like books.” He”

— Judy Wright

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

— Anonymous

“Books are medicine for the soul. They heal the eternal parts of a person.”

— Loretta Lost

“I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.”

— Alyxandra Harvey

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.”

— Tom Robbins

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

— Jimmy Fallon

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

— Tucker Max

“Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing”

— Benjamin Franklin

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

— Sara Paretsky

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

— Brooks Robinson