Book Quotes · Page 326

I'm a huge comic book fan and fanatic, and so are my cousins.

— Joivan Wade

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

— Tahereh Mafi

I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.

— Dave Barry

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

— Per Petterson

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

— Eric Kandel

“You are the first of your kind. Books will be written about you. Be the legend you are meant to be. -…

— Candace Knoebel

Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

— Rick Warren

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how…

— Edan Lepucki

Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an…

— Arnold Gingrich

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins…

— Louise Erdrich

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt…

— Cornelia Funke

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding…

— Elliott Colla

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always…

— Nancy E. Turner

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a…

— Sergio Aragones

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

— Mark Kurlansky

From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater,…

— Thomas Hobbes

“As soon as her heart stopped beating, Brad collapsed to the floor beside her bed. His body had succumbed to the trauma…

— Vicki Perry

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big…

— James Patterson

What happened when you were twelve?” “Oh, Mom offered to take us all out for dinner—us girls, Dad was out of town—to…

— Richelle Mead

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call…

— Philip Pullman

Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the…

— Sabina Murray

“The great thing about book burnings is, they still have to buy the books.”

— Anonymous

Fresh than a motherfucker I knew what it took. The thing that I'm giving you couldn't get out a book.

— Big Krit

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

— Dav Pilkey

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

— Mark Twain

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

— Rodman Philbrick

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

— Alphonse Karr

“Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!”

— Kiran Joshi

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

“Books can send you to another dimension, a dimension exclusive only for the readers.”

— My Self

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

— John Flanagan

When I'm reading a book, I don't notice the passing of time.

— Liza Soberano

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

— Mordicai Gerstein

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

— Neil Gaiman

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

— Harriet Lerner

When something comes to my mind, I finish a book within 15-20 days.

— Sudha Murty

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

— George Steiner