Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has… — Jane Austen
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an… — Paul Auster
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick… — Paul Auster
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much… — Paul Auster
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a… — Paul Auster
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books… — Ibrahim Babangida
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own… — Michele Bachmann
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. — Kevin Bacon
Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who… — James A. Baldwin
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. — Arthur Balfour
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a… — Iain Banks
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of… — Iain Banks
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a… — Russell Banks
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. — Russell Banks
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again… — John Banville
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville
I am the worst judge of my books. — John Banville
I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects. — John Banville
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high. — John Banville
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville

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