Book Quotes
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.
Conrad Veidt
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In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable time teaching and instructing and training His councils and council leaders, and then He sent them forth to share what they had learned with others.
M. Russell Ballard
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When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
Jeffrey Archer
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Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
Anne Rivers Siddons
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I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.
Jessie Cave
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Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'
Matthew Tobin Anderson
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I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.
Lindsay Pearce
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I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.
John Shelby Spong
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When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
Jenna McCarthy
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I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
Gail Godwin
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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
Alberto Manguel
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For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .
M. F. K. Fisher
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I am awestruck and I am happy to see that the book fair happens. I’ve learnt everything I know on the go, like my mother tongue.
Kamal Haasan
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
Lynn Abbey
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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
Bobby McFerrin
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I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.
James Badge Dale
