Book Quotes

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of… — Albert Camus
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. — Truman Capote
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. — Orson Scott Card
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll… — Orson Scott Card
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything… — Steve Carell
I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able… — Drew Carey
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative… — Tucker Carlson
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection… — Thomas Carlyle
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Thomas Carlyle
The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I… — Dale Carnegie
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. — Adam Carolla
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. — John le Carre
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. — John le Carre
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the… — John le Carre
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' — Lewis Carroll
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring… — Angela Carter
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book… — Graydon Carter

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