Book Quotes
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Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
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I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.
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A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
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Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
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I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
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No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
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I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.
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The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
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It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
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Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
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I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
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I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love and what makes us godly. And then if you read between the lines of all the same books, you always see the human influence in the writing... it's not all about religiousness, it's about spirituality.
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We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.
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Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
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You will never be lonely with a book at your side.
