Book Quotes · Page 53

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

— Plato

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

— Garry Wills

“We are...two open pages of the same book”

— Hisham Matar

“He lived like a devil and died like a saint”

— Haidji

“I saw the book thief three times.”

— mark zusak

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

— Beatrice Wood

I write the best book that I can write each time.

— Karen Robards

“the very reading of a worthy book is a delicious joy,”

— Frank Parsons

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

— Stephan Jenkins

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

— Charles Lamb

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

— Christopher Morley

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

— Louisa May Alcott

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

— Ernest Hemingway

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

— Hansie Cronje

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a…

— Donna Tartt

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're…

— Margaret Atwood

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the…

— Herman Melville

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff,…

— John Fahey

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live.…

— Catherine Deneuve

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction…

— Dan Simmons

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first…

— Sherman Alexie

I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted…

— Samantha Hunt

Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The…

— Dorothea Lasky

When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book.…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I believe that Fairport, in all its incarnations, has almost single-handedly been responsible for and has written the book on the history…

— Iain Matthews

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and…

— Donalyn Miller

I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in…

— Robert Benchley

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

— Anonymous

“Home is wherever my books are.”

— Mary Beth Hall

I have disassociated myself from that book.

— Uta Hagen

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

— Charles Bukowski

You live several lives while reading [a good book].

— William Styron

It's never too early to start marketing your book.

— Heather Hart

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

— Jeffrey Archer

“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”

— Jane Austen