Book Quotes · Page 332

“We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.”

— Steve Maraboli

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

— Pete Rose

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

— Chris Van Allsburg

“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

— Neil Patrick Harris

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

— Gore Vidal

“Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but…

— Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

— Anonymous

“Goodreads helps quite a few people that love to giveaway their books. I donate some of the books that I get from…

— William Manchee

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the…

— Alastair Campbell

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into…

— Mohsin Hamid

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

— Vivek Shraya

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit…

— Anonymous

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could…

— Cassandra Clare

If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I…

— Frederick Marryat

I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is…

— Paulo Coelho

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are…

— Anonymous

My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture…

— Dav Pilkey

“In our lives, we don’t always get what we deserve or what we want. But how we deal with those misfortunes mold…

— Jeff Wheeler

I keep a daily journal of whatever weird thought comes into my mind, like when I had a dream I was in…

— Dan Chaon

If everybody can author their own story, if media is democratizing because everybody can make a really good-looking website... that's the way…

— Rachel Maddow

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing…

— Ben Mezrich

Books come in really handy when you need something to put your laptop on.

— Nikhil Saluja

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read…

— Terry Goodkind

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

— Joe Wright

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

— Regina Spektor

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

— Vincente Minnelli

“Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”

— Anna Quindlen

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

— Kevin J. Anderson

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

— Norman Maclean

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

— Catharine Beecher

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

— Cornelia Funke