Book Quotes

• To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Future
  • Past
  • Literature

• If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Book
  • Powerful

• What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Book
  • Friend
  • Borrowed

• If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Breakfast

• I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

  

  Edward Klein
  • Book

• The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Mistake
  • Building
  • Marketing

• [My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Different
  • Children
  • Puppy

• If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Alone
  • Judge
  • Should

• I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

  

  Brad Delp Boston
  • Book
  • Wonder

• When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • May
  • Book
  • Remember

• I took a page out of the U2 book. They've always had a universal approach. Nobody doubts they're Christian, but there's an open door for everybody in any faith to consume the music at any level.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Faith
  • Christian

• Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Character

• I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Book

• Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Art

• A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and you first take a line of coke and then you open the Bible. Because then you understand.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Book
  • Bible

• I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Life
  • Help
  • Wish

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Solitude

• For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Real
  • Simple
  • Picture

• I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Time
  • Process
  • Manuscripts

• The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

  

  Alfred Edward Newton
  • Book
  • Serious

• Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Loss

• Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Book

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