Your Book Quotes
102 Your Book quotes by 87 unique authors
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
— Groucho Marx
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I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me.…
— Eckhart Tolle
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of…
— C.S. Lewis
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What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell…
— Margaret Drabble
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If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
— James A. Michener
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Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's…
— Terry McMillan
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Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs…
— Douglas Coupland
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If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and…
— Daniel Handler
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Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of…
— Meg Cabot
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You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?
— Stephen Colbert
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There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon…
— Susanna Clarke
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Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book,…
— Cassandra Clare
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It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
— Allen Ginsberg
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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before…
— Alexander Theroux
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I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it…
— David Farland
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I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is…
— James Dashner
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Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms…
— Jack London
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But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some…
— Karen Russell
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You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.
— Karen Marie Moning
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And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that…
— John Green
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I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?
— Kristin Cashore
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Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.
— Neil Gaiman
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Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work.…
— Cheryl Strayed
Who Wrote These Your Book Quotes
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