Books Quotes · Page 179

You should always judge a book by its lovers.

— Anonymous

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

— Tracy Chevalier

“I don't even know what a room without books looks like.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.

— Jane Cleland

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Books are the original virtual reality.”

— Marushia Dark

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader…

— Jim Lehrer

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

— Karen Hesse

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

“I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark So please do not close this book on me.”

— Shel Silverstein

“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.”

— James Elroy Flecker

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy…

— Anonymous

Any critic will tell you that there are a few dealers where you get a little bit scared to go into their…

— Jerry Saltz

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like…

— D. H. Lawrence

The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come…

— Paul Lockhart

“It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read…

— Winston S. Churchill

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul…

— Mary MacLane

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to…

— Louise Erdrich

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis…

— Robert Crais

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated…

— Anonymous

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

— Adam Young

“Books are an extension of our imagination”

— Danny Saunders

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

— Joel Stein

“Charter boats are like books with no covers.”

— Tania Aebi

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

— Lando Norris

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

— Sara Shepard

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author”

— Mary Lou Quinlan

Books make dangerous devils out of women.

— Yxta Maya Murray

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

— Antonio Gaudi

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

— Jodi Picoult

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

— Flannery O'Connor

“A good Author is willing to read as much as she writes”

— SarahMyriaCarter

“Read to a child today so they can discover the joy of reading.”

— Irene Menendez

'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

— Gerald Durrell

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

— Annie Dillard