Book Quotes

• Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Good
  • Book
  • Reading

• People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People
  • Book

• 'Triple Agent' is a different kind of read because it is, at its core, a pure narrative, the story of an intelligence operation that unfolds over the course of a year and then goes badly wrong. There's a lot of 'news' in the book, including an account of drone warfare that is as detailed, in my humble opinion, as any in the open-source arena.

  

  Joby Warrick
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Country
  • Book
  • Age

• The Bible is a history book.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Book
  • History
  • Bible

• I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • Mood
  • Improbable

• When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • House
  • Player
  • Record

• I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Moving

• It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Book
  • Horse

• We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

  

  LeVar Burton
  • People
  • Movie
  • Reading

• There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.

  

  Peter Carey
  • People
  • Friends
  • Attention

• Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Book
  • Church
  • Army

• You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

  

  Marissa Moss
  • Good
  • Book

• A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Art

• How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Wish

• 'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Children
  • Book

• Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin. Aphrodite frowned at him. "I said focus, not flirt.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Important
  • Help
  • Giving

• The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

• Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Book
  • Travel
  • Walking

• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Book

• 'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Important
  • Country
  • America

• I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Work
  • Book

• Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
  • Why
  • Question

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