Book Quotes

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an i...

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I trave...

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the...

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...

In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us ...

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American ar...

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestse...

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature ...

It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be...

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

Don't judge a book by its cover

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what...

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend ...

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different da...

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief ...

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library ...

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest c...

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind...

Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure i...

I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safe...

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ...

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can'...

I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But...

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.

He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any autho...

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democr...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is o...

I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every r...

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a boo...

I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in."Anybody else except Ackley would'...

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying t...

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?""What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by...

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we go...

And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no...

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writer...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibl...

With a book, he was regardless of time.

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I...

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is tha...

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn som...

The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just ...

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...But couldn't I in another medium?....

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge respon...

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the ra...

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya A...

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I...

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volum...

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with e...

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just ...

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertak...

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about gettin...

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

‎"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm jus...

If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart ...

I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay ato...

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship...

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to rea...

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we...

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enoug...

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

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.