Book Quotes
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When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.
Mary Roach
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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
Dolly Parton
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Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen from Black's point of view. Why does everybody try to copy the grandmasters' strange positional maneuvers in the 5. ... B-K2 variation, instead of fighting for the in intiative?
Bent Larsen
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.
Stephen Carter
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I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
Nat Hentoff
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When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language. Thus I am now me again, I am here, I go about my ordinary business, I have nothing to do with the book, or, to be exact, I entered it, but I can no longer enter it.
Elena Ferrante
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Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.
Terry Brooks
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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Anthony Horowitz
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The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
Philip Pullman
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
Victor Hugo
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I've read all the books but one
Only remains sacred: this
Volume of wonders, open
Always before my eyes.
Kathleen Raine
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Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.
Ann M. Martin
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In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.
William Graham Sumner
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The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.
Northrop Frye
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I love the way that each book - any book - is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.
Sharon Creech
