Book Quote by Rebecca Stead

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

— Jodi Picoult

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

— Jesse Ball

To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.

— Sam Graves

Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally…

— Dorothy Bryant

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

— Anthony Burgess

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Mark Twain

There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a very clear,…

— Rebecca Stead

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

— Joel Stein

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

— Dacia Maraini

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Raoul Vaneigem

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

— George MacDonald