Book Quotes

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dre...

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the bl...

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What bet...

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be...

From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent...

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like ...

Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, a...

A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data th...

That's what this country needs -- more books!

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotte...

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If i...

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to m...

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and ge...

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog exce...

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that...

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or ...

The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's...

It's a very good historical book about history.

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover y...

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I ...

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all ...

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking...

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a ...

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ...

It's commonplace to say that we 'love' a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Some...

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's n...

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know...

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than the ...

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebo...

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend yo...

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road...

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really need...

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged ...

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, s...

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the wh...

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions...

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...