Book Quotes

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.

If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets. But musically, it all fell right into place.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for people with attention spans.

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

My books are friends that never fail me.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman.

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.