Book Quotes

14007 quotes by 5987 authors

High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack… — Margaret Atwood
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 the same. It's… — Margaret Atwood
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look… — Margaret Atwood
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under… — Margaret Atwood
If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author… — Margaret Atwood
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the… — Margaret Atwood
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — Wystan Hugh Auden

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