Book Quotes

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you.

Before the Olympics, there's always been a part of me that's wanted to write a book about Women's cycling because there isn't one out there and I think there's a lot to be said.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.