Book Quotes

• I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Sick
  • Changed

• I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Reading

• Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Book
  • Passion
  • Read

• Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Real
  • Wish

• ' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

  

  Jud Wilhite
  • Book
  • Shows
  • Move Forward

• Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Rich

• I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Book

• The way I've talked about my research process is that it was like magpies. I was just sort of moving through all these books and when something shiny would pop out I'd be like, Ooh, I love it! and I'd pluck it out. It's fun to figure out how to use those bits you really love - like I'd read about gold shoes with cork heels. Obviously, Margaret would have to wear those shoes.

  

  Danielle Dutton
  • Fun
  • Moving
  • Figures

• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  

  Carolyn Cassady
  • Women
  • Book
  • Revelation

• It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Learn

• You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

  

  Richard McKenna
  • Book
  • Dies

• A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

  

  Paul Scofield
  • Book
  • Value
  • Merit

• I think really good books can be read by anybody.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Good
  • Book

• The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself - not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Design
  • Intelligent
  • Belief

• I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Writing
  • Book

• I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Book
  • Prisoner
  • I Wrote

• I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Reading
  • Library
  • Remains

• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • People
  • House
  • Sleep

• The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

  

  Peter York
  • Book
  • Library
  • Read

• I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Way
  • Enough
  • Smart

• As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Challenges

• You don't write a book to show off.

  

  Tony Orlando
  • Writing
  • Book

• I stared at the reproduced mural in the book--but I was more interested in his finger as he tapped the book with approval. That finger had pulled a trigger in a war. That finger had touched my mother in tender ways I did not fully comprehend. I wanted to talk, to say something, to ask questions. But I couldn't. All the words were stuck in my throat. So I just nodded.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • War
  • Interested
  • My Mother

• There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Reason

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