From Book Quotes

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative and original philosophical genius.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

God is thy law, thou mine.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.