Books Quotes · Page 312

I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

— Andre Ward

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

— Studs Terkel

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

— Barbara Hambly

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

“To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.”

— J. R. Moehringer

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

— Aerin Lauder

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

— William Styron

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous

“...but every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human…

— Jack Gantos

“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”

— Sarah J. Maas

I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?'…

— Ophelia Lovibond

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can…

— Anonymous

“We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it…

— Peter Kreeft

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest…

— E. B. White

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and…

— Annie Dillard

If you don't know, 'The New Mutants' is like an 'X-Men' spin-off. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and…

— Charlie Heaton

“The Animal Farm is a well written book in comprehensive english. George Orwell compares the communist Russian political system trying to make…

— George Orwell

There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role…

— Robin Chase

“To make matters worse, some of the books had actually become migratory. In the nineteenth century Brakebills had appointed a librarian with…

— Lev Grossman

“I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both…

— Jack London

“Historically in the literature CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy] was inappropriately touted as a cure for patients with ME/CFS if they changed their…

— Alison C. Bested

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and…

— Terry Pratchett

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it…

— Kelly Macdonald

“he who kills purpose kills is place in the great book of history”

— ojo emmanuel david

Before starting any chapter, I count the number of pages.

— Anonymous

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

— Sara Sheridan

The minute the reader isn't sure what's happening, you're lost.

— Nick Petrie

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

— Jeffrey Archer

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

— Anne Tyler

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

— Ian Mcewan

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

— Sol LeWitt

“between the pages of a book is a lovely place to stay”

— Maredith

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

— John Updike

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

— Maryanne Wolf

Study from new books but from old teachers.

— Turkish Proverb

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

— Robert Frost