Books Quotes
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
Francis Bacon
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
Barbara Park
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Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?
Rachel Caine
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Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights.
Ephrem the Syrian
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
M. J. Rose
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
Chuck Klosterman
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
M. J. Rose
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
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Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.
Oprah Winfrey
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With the SEO value of Gawker, I could sell anything, including 'Gorilla Mindset' books. I would self-monetize. The way Alex Jones does it.
Mike Cernovich
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Books were in my family - books were my family.
Joshua Cohen
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
Mary Gordon
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
Beatrice Wood
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
Laird Barron
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Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
Marianne Williamson
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Gale Gordon
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
Iain Banks
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Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
Asif Ali Zardari
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
Abraham Lincoln
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When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there's an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I've got 200 books if I've got any on the Federal Reserve. And we don't need any more books, we need action, and that's what the Liberty Dollar did, it gave people a way to take action. Our catch phrase was you want to "make money, do good, and have fun," and people really responded to that.
Bernard von NotHaus
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There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
Joy Fielding
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
Gail Porter