Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.
Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.
The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.
Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.
The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.
There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.