Book Quotes

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blo...

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative the...

...a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to...

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the sp...

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been crit...

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get o...

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion,...

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU...

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selectio...

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, tak...

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to creat...

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, ...

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we h...

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matte...

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he s...

I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking a...

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o...

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, ...

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. Ho...

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody...

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Br...

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't thin...

I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry...

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 ...