59,475 quotes from 19,816 authors
“this book. I will try to repay all of you with sustenance”
— Amy Tan
“Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book Half unread”
— All Time Low
“Beautifully descriptive. One of the best books I've read.”
— valerie Fitzgerald
“In the book of life the answers aren't always in the back”
— Charles Schwartz
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book..
— Anonymous
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.
— George Carlin
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
— Thomas Carlyle
The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.
— Tim Ferriss
“A book is a dear friend who has a thousand things to say.”
— Nicole Sager
Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
— Ronald Blythe
Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!
— Twiggy
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
— Storm Jameson
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
— John Witherspoon
“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”
— Horace Mann
My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
— Vasyl Lomachenko
You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.
— Kami Garcia
You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.
— Gary Soto
I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.
— Megan Abbott
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.
— Hubert de Givenchy
I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.
— Amish Tripathi
“There will always be enough time to sit with a good book.”
— c.p.Noonen
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
— Norman Mailer
“Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.”
— Salvador de Madariaga
A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
— Robert J. Sawyer
“Wow. Death by books. That would have been some way to go.”
— Beth Reekles
“The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!”
— Laura Beth
That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime
Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual
— Richard Bach
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
— Jose Bergamin
I was sent away, and I never really found my way back home.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.
— Arundhati Roy
“The cognitively unsound concept of “close reading” Author”
— Terry Marselle
Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.
— Theodore Parker
I definitely read a lot in school, and even more in prison.
— Benny the Butcher
One of my favourite books of all time is 'The Borstal Boy.'
— Roisin Murphy
“No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.”
— Alamvusha
I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.
— James Mangold
“I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.”
— Bauvard
God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
