Book Quotes

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. ...

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make ou...

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...

There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and ...

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I ...

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches ...

And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every ...

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I wa...

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively...

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, ...

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because yo...

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't te...

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension ...

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U...

For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journe...

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that t...

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...

From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingric...

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up...

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture ...

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of Ind...

I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book...

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do...

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would pre...

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably ov...

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, ...

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

This book is the book you have just read. It’s done.

You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to wri...

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book...

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to ma...

All they told me was that he was forty-two when he died. I just wanted...to find out more about what...

The world is a better place when you smile.

But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to rememb...

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I ...

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must...

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. I...

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends ...

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about ha...

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or thr...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or ...

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or ...

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or ...

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or ...

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells li...

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master...

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a sci...

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so might...

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines tra...

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while r...

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, tha...

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this charact...

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in...

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in retu...

Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over centra...

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr...

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that ...

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a...

Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. I...

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. T...

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have bey...

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to tea...

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw yo...

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform ...

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were ...

I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry...

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that...

The world exists to end up in a book.

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flam...

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the sam...

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale....

Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawer...

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college,...