Book Quotes · Page 330

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

— Ishmael Reed

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

— Nigel Pearson

“When I think of you, and you are not here, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in…

— Cassandra Clare

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

— Gustav Klimt

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

— Louis L'Amour

“A book is a friend that gives all it has in return asks for nothing except its safety”

— Bharath Swaminathan

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

My mind is like a book. closed to people and full of words that dont want to be read.

— Kezz Marrow

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

— Daniel Handler

“I want to publish a book on toilet paper—not only about toilet paper, but actually print it on toilet paper. That way…

— Jarod Kintz

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life.…

— Tony Burgess

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired.…

— Brandon Sanderson

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades…

— Virginia Woolf

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students…

— Frances Osborne

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used…

— Myrtle Reed

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh…

— Michael Crichton

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou…

— Terry Eagleton

I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow…

— Anne Bronte

“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?…

— Anonymous

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about…

— Anonymous

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course…

— Andrew Breitbart

This book is a must for anyone who wants to know how leaders develop their practices within a community context. Bordas has…

— Rinku Sen

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the…

— A. Whitney Brown

Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into…

— Peter Lindbergh

“Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.”

— Cheryl Koevoet

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

— Andy Dunn

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

— Greta Garbo

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

— Richard Serra

“Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?”

— Ken Poirot

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”

— Henry Ward Beecher

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

— Mary Karr

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

— Malala Yousafzai

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

— Anonymous

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

— Alastair Reynolds

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

— Edmund White