Book Quotes

• You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Writing

• What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Book
  • Fall
  • Errors

• For solace, I love a book that opens up my perspective.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Up
  • Book
  • Perspective

• I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Book
  • Model
  • Author

• Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Long
  • Christian

• The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • Time
  • Free
  • Way

• 'Oh, but I've done some other unforgivable, unspeakable thing'? Google it. There's seven billion of us. Somebody has done exactly what you have done, and is currently on a book tour. You're never alone!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Done
  • Book
  • Alone

• Go on. Treat me like the page of a book. Your book.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Book

• Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S

  

  Zakir Naik
  • Book
  • Science
  • Als

• Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • People
  • Book

• But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Buddhism
  • Instruction
  • Synthesizers

• Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Magic
  • Flower
  • Fruit

• There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Letters
  • Signings

• I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.

  

  William Golding
  • Age
  • Language
  • Greek

• Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Life Is Too Short

• My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

  

  Burt Ward
  • Kids
  • Period
  • Batman

• It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book.

  

  James Salter
  • Up
  • House
  • Light

• It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

  

  M. M. Mangasarian
  • God
  • Truth
  • Justice

• Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever.

  

  Bevy Smith
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Forever

• I see 'Eligible' as a homage, and I see 'Pride and Prejudice' as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can't dispute my fondness for the novel.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Pride

• A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Reality
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Ideas
  • Blank
  • Slate

• I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Trust
  • Happen
  • Larry

• I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

  

  Linda Lael Miller
  • Good
  • Book

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