Quotation Explorer - 'Book'

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. - W. Somerset Maugham

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing. - Rick Holland

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back. - Charles M. Schulz

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book. - Ashwin Sanghi

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... - J. R. R. Tolkien

Reading a book is something you do to yourself. - Last Man Standing

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end. - Jeff Kinney

Your life is a book; make it a bestseller. - Shanon Grey

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound

Life is like Book. Everyday you wake up and found new page with good or bad things.. If your one page is not good , don't be sad as you have more page to open. But if you found something good than don't be rude to others as page can be changed anytime. - Gargi Vyas

...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. - John Milton

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book. - Genesis Quihuis

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. - Dame Rose Macaulay

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)

A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience. - Robert Harris

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock

They have no discipline. They’ll still need us. Ha! said Postel. No discipline? Behold!!!! My cat has written a book! ...And she's published!" — Amok 2015 - Fred Barnett

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. - Elbert Hubbard

Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe - Madelon Phillips

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something. - Geoff Dyer

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it. - Daniel Keyes

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book. - Carl Hiaasen

My life is my book, but I can't read it. - Marty Rubin

One cannot review a bad book without showing off. - W. H. Auden

So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?" Cole said dryly. "Why didn't I ever try that approach? I like books and trees. - Brodi Ashton

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. - Carmen DeSousa

Life is a book. When one chapter ends, the next one begins... - Scuro Chiaro - Photographer

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka

People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy. - Adrian Lamo

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun. - Groucho Marx

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better. - Stephen Potter

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. - Faye Snyder

In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superceded. - Frank Pakenham

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. - Michael Cunningham

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. - Robert Byrne

A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies. - J. Patrick Lewis

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications - Linda F. Radke

Solara: I didn't think you'd ever give up the book, I thought it was too important to youEli: It was, I was carrying and reading it everyday, got so caught up in protecting it, I forgot to live by what I'd learnt from itSolara: And what's that?Eli: To do more for others than you do for yourself - Book of Eli Movie

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book. - Chrys Fey

Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book. - Mark Siegel

Life is too short to spend on a book you don't enjoy. - Katrina-Jane

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, ."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, . - George Bernard Shaw

We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future. - James White Fellow of INSTAAR

I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience. - Paula Heller Garland

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. - Nikki Giovanni

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. - Christopher Morley

You life is a book; make it a bestseller. - Shanon Grey

A book is a treasure of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a game and there is full of cheat .. if you don't the cheap book you will play for the rest of your life but you will never get certain score to compete with high scorers. so find the cheap book to succeed in life . - Parker Bernard

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over. - Junot Díaz

Who needs sleep when you have a good book? - Elizabeth Ann Patterson

Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt. - Lauren DeStefano

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it - Kathy Acker

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. - Brendan Francis

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. - Virginia Woolf

The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way. - Geoffrey Wood

The worth of a book is infinite. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan

The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by...The easy chair, the shaded lamp,A well-loved book and I. - Edna Moore Schultz

A scary movie or a book isn't still made. But I'm waiting for that! - Deyth Banger

Dreams are like holding on to a good book in your hands; you have the full story in your palms, but no matter how much you want to get to the end of the story, you have to go through all the pages first; and you are the writer. - T.H Maloa

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. - Jose Luis Borges

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. - J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs. - N.M. Silber

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! - Neil Gaiman

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page? - Rob Liano

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading. - A.N.L. Munby

There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart. - Debasish Mridha

Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it? - Deyth Banger

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book – I call that viciousness! - Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. - Edna Ferber

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- (born June 11 1925) - William Styron

Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death. - tumblr

Always choose the adventure ... unless, it's chilly outside and there's a cup of warm coffee resting near a book and comfy sofa. - Barbara Brooke

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep. - Nicholaa Spencer

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C.S. Lewis

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. - Gertrude Stein

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The frontispiece of Mr. 's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits. George Poulett Scrope - Lyell

If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen... - Deyth Banger

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft. - Terry Pratchett

There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart. - Alex de Campi

. . . it’s okay if we get mad at each other?Yeah, Buddy, it’s OK, as long as we don’t stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up.from upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms. - Charlotte Snead

A book, the greatest gift ever - R.Gayan Priyankara

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. - Jason Ellis

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... - Vladimir Nabokov

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. - Mark Twain

If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written? - Neil Leckman

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. - Meg Medina

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. - H.G. Wells

I believe having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. - Lynn Johnston

Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore. - Khadija Rupa

It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. - Clifford Cohen

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book! - Kerry Greenwood

How can I survive without a book to read? - David Hill

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds. - Augustine of Hippo

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine,How first you knew me in a book I wrote,How first you loved me for a written line.... - Edna St. Vincent Millay

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat. - Stephen Wright

The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read. - Dani J. Caile

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing. - Remarque Erich Maria

There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes people ask why I'm so willing to give out #free copies of my books and the answer is pretty simple. Money is not why I write.So why would I keep someone from enjoying that because they can't afford my book? If your in the arts for money your picking the wrong job. - Adam Snowflake

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start. - Jo Linsdell

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book. - Jane Austen

When I thought I felt better, grief shot its silver tip arrow at my heart to remind me that it was still there.Excerpt From: Holster, S.G. Thirty Seconds to Die. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.Check out this book on the iBooks Store - S.G. Holster

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book. - Bill Maher

I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book. - Debasish Mridha

My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains. - Stephen Hawking

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. - Maya Angelou

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. - A.A. Milne

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your poetry. - N'Zuri Za Austin

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. - John Milton

The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum. - Joseph Epstein

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter. - Sara Sheridan

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. - Edward P. Morgan

A book is never finished; it's abandoned. - Gene Fowler

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Heine

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book. - Brent Weeks

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies

I was always taught that book-keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. - Ashwin Sanghi

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended. - Martyn V. Halm

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. - Harper Lee

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau

Medicine is not a book but mind, not a business but life - Farid F. Ibrahim

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it. - David Morrell

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open. - Tim LaHaye

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence. - Orson Scott Card

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians - Inafetse Santos

It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War. - Angel Ramon Medina

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. - Don DeLillo

The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.A fool’s mind judges a book by its title. - Ellen J. Barrier

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. - Richie Norton

I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together. - Sima Mittal

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

The size of a book never matter as the size of wisdom in the book - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it. - Tony Hancock

And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat. - Nick Stewart

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. - Paul Sweeney

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. - Ursula K. Le Guin

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. - Dr. Seuss

Life is a book. We fill the pages. - Victoria Valentine

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. - Roger Kahn

Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drown in a book. Whatever works. - Roney Ngala

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work.... - Benjamin Franklin

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - Augustine of Hippo

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. - R.D. Laing

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard. - A.P. Fuchs

We are unique not by comparison but by compassion (the moral of my book The Cheetah and the Snail) - Shriram

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. - Jorge Luis Borges

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well. - Shawn Achor

The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING. - A.W. Tozer

It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book... - Deyth Banger

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

People want one book to read about the topic and to learn everything, unfortunately I was the same guy, the same person. Who wanted the same, but most stuff and for the most clever and intelligent people is mystery. - Deyth Banger

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it - Jason Calder

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. - Wilson Mizner

Every book is a safe heaven, many people don't see it but I do.I see my chance to escape and be safe, I see the choice to stop or jump over the yelling, I see the key to help me get a better person.I see not different worlds, no, I see my universe. - I wrote it

...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse. - Shandy L. Kurth

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun. - Wynne Stevens

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. - Selwyn Champion

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it. - John Waters

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. - Emilie Autumn

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. - J.K. Rowling

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven. - Lauren Willig

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say. - Italo Calvino

I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact, I did not read an entire book through until I was a grown man and had learned the awesome power of reading on my own. - Daniel Whyte III

All that you seek is hidden in book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. - Chuck Miceli

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. - Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. - Dave Kellett

Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house. - Marguerite Porete

I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn't necessary for understanding. Liking didn't enter into it. - Kelly Jacqueline

To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time. - Shannon L. Alder

I love the smell of book ink in the morning. - Umberto Eco

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! - Fatima Masood

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - C.S. Lewis

Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging ministers. Is there any greater job than a book you're not allowed to read, a book you could go to hell for reading? - Ann Patchett

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. - Tom Wolfe

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. - Anne Frank

oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo?Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school.""Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from. - L.A. Weatherly

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. - Phillip Adams

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

My Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers run like a raging river. I'm now in the editing process with my next thriller, "The Apothecary." Please go to my website for excerpts, synopses, and book trailers of all my works: . Marshall Chamberlain - http://www.gracepublisihing.org

You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all. - Ellie Firestone

The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading. - Amanda Penland

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Chinese Proverb

Rereading, we find a new book - Mason Cooley

من قال عليّ ما لم أقل فليتبوأ مقعده من النارWhoever ascribes to me what I have not said then let him occupy his seat in Hell-fire! (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 3, #109) - Anonymous

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson - Matt Groening

You are the best book you could ever write phi - rassool jibraeel snyman

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? - Saadi سعدی

My book "Bamboo Walls" is forever because the Djojobojo Prophecy is timeless! - Yvonne B Murtha

Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book. - Kin Hubbard

Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little leap of joy. What a beautiful world the market is making. - Jeffrey Tucker

I am a tale, I am a book, written in different languages and styles I can’t be read, can’t be understood,neither by me nor the greatest of minds I am too big, I am too small, to be processed or seen by the naked eyeI am too dim, I am too bright, to appear in the shadows or the sunshine. - Sanober Khan

A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles. - Elizabeth Adeniyi

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book. - M. Kirin

May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever! - Anamika Mishra

You were meant to write this book. - M. Kirin

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. - Israelmore Ayivor

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. - Michel Foucault

i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad - Sanchez Raymundo

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. - Pierre Bayle

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. - Carl Sandburg

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The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you. - Stephen Richards

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks. - A.M. Homes

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I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman. - Betty Friedan

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story. - Sarah Addison Allen

A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life? - Elizabeth Adeniyi

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. - Madeleine L'Engle

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. - Chinese Proverb

Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books... - Deyth Banger

It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book. - Lori Lesko

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. - Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place. - James Wood

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. - Meg Rosoff

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. - Holbrook Jackson

In the very existence of this book we have a most concrete example of the manner in which at least one of these marvellous creatures [cats], acquiring both an editor and a publisher, has advanced the eventual complete feline take-over of the human race. - Paul Gallico

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon."As quoted in The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006) - Susan Sarandon

Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book. What you need is subtlety. - Sandy Vaile

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - James Goldsmith

Reading a book makes a conversation with the author (Robin Sharma on The Cure For Fear - Robin Sharma) - Deyth Banger

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read. - Maryrose Wood

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters. - Stephen Chbosky

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. - Franz Kafka

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. - Stéphane Mallarmé

The book is man's best invention so far. - Carolina Maria de Jesus

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. - Anne Fadiman

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution. - Amit Kalantri

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on. - Richelle E. Goodrich

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? - Dan Barker

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. - Libba Bray

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much. - Christopher Morley

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart. - Muna Adnan Naqi

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. - Sara Sheridan

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. - Shannon Hale

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story. - Erica Goros

We all move on from history to chance, sorrow to sorrow, hope to hope, joy to joy. Read the book of fiction on the theme. its title is FROM HISTORY TO CHANCE - Jamaluddin Jamali

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. - Amos Bronson Alcott

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. - Erica Jong

By studying, understanding and do the wills of the book, you renounce your mortal life. - Compton Gage

Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped. - Once upon a time Belle

No book can truly be original, but there are always way to make it unique. - Hiba Fatima Ahmad

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn’t think to stop it? - Geoffrey Wood

You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty. - Debasish Mridha

The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover. - Susan Straight

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book. - K. Lamb

There is no Frigate like a book. - Emily Dickinson

There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3) - Krissi Dallas

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt. - Karen Miller

All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. - Blind Melon

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization. - Swami Vivekananda

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. - Christopher Hitchens

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. - Anne Michaels

...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book.... - Vladimir Nabokov

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. - Spyridon Marinatos

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. - Ignazio Silone

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture. - Sara Sheridan

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities. - C.S. Lewis

Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.. - Geoffrey Hill

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. - Charles Dickens

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it. - Markus Zusak

A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words. - Balroop Singh

Set off on a quest to find someone who has read a book or many books and remains the same, and I can tell you with all certainty there is no one you will see. - K.C. OBI

No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer's head. And then, if you want peace, you just have to pull it out and freeze it in print. Nothing less would do. - Jyoti Arora

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book. - Will Rogers

The best moments in reading are when you come across your own suppressed emptiness. You stand face to face with a character in your book, a person you never met, someone even who is long dead…And you finally realize that the book is not what you’ve been reading. - Hillary Wen

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. - Mitch Albom

Book knowledge takes action based on reasons; common sense takes action based on the reason from the reasons! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. - Rabbi Harold Kushner

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. - Agatha Christie

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] - Susan Sontag

Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough. - Kishore Bansal

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - From "Pageturner" in 365 Tomorrows - Joseph Patrick Pascale

Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it. - Stuart Aken

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence. - Mustafa SULTAN

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. - John Muir

A good book has no ending. - R. D. Cumming

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. - James M. Barrie

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay. - G.I. Gurdjieff

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. - Douglas Coupland

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. - C.S. Lewis

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop. - Ralph Novak

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. - G. K. Chesterton

When you let Soul drive the bus, life flows more effortlessly. -- From the book, Doing a 360, page 8 - Nancy Ash

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John Witherspoon

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic. - Carmela Dutra

A book is not completed till it's read. - Salman Rushdie

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. - William Goldman

who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a secret smile as your mind wanders back to those sleepless yet ecstatic nights you had spent together?only............a book lover. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, undestand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. Every thoughtful book about love makes us better lovers, I think. It opens the gates of perception. - Janet Fitch

Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Joel Carmichael

Life is like a Book, Everyone has their own new chapters - snowrinn

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. - Rose Tremain

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. - Nikki Giovanni

Beware the man of one book. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.and also my friend i learned this To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers like u it is a story book. - Sean Davz

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. - Arthur Conan Doyle

You cannot open a book without learning something. - Confucius

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. - Douglas William Jerrold

The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit. - David Williamson Shaffer

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. - Saint Augustine

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together. - John Green

The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End". - Bryan Koepke

A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Everything is art and it's part of the painting. (To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...) - Deyth Banger

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern. - Germany Kent

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's up to you to turn up the pages and move on with the next chapter or just get yourself stuck in the same content over and over again."- Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo

The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. - Norman Cousins

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality. - Amit Kalantri

The world of book is the stream of souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book. - Russell Delman

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten. - Eric Sykes

The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don’t entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it’s impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it. - Kristin Cashore

…only then did I wake out of the book. - John McGahern

Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. - K.J. Kilton

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters... - William Shakespeare

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. - Jane Austen

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. - Alain de Botton

Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book. - Edenia Archuleta

A book is a dream you hold in your hands - Neil Gaiman

I love you silly 'holy' book. Here's hoping everybody un-reads it. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Beware the man of a single book. - Thomas Aquinas

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past. - Gary Shteyngart

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. - Truman Capote

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. - John Green

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold. - Stefanos Livos

Dream up a book on Monday, publish it on Friday. - Jill Novak

I done something bad, it was to believe that to read a book you must be a stupid guy. No people which read they are clever - the guy who said this is stupid guy! - Deyth Banger

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished. - Lawrence Welk

For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt. - Martin Cosgrove

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound

Your life is a book;it begins the day you are born,the chapters pile up as you grow,and the book ends as you die. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours. - Lailah Gifty Akita

One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. - Clifton Fadiman

Taking the reading and book one of the two hours of my time, but he advised me years! - Ahmed A. Ateya

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow. - Omar Khayyám

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist. - Oliver Markus

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck

I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr! - Jennifer Donnelly

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. - Neil Gaiman

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. - George Orwell

I can forgo my lunch to get the book, I love to read. - Lailah Gifty Akita

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

It's not my fault you have the attention span of a gnat, capable of only thumbing through the crap on Facebook, instead of reading something of worth that can change your life. No, I'm not talking about Oprah's or Ellen's book either. - Dara Reidyr

You're either reading a book or you're not. - Jonathan Franzen

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity. - Martin Myers

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together. - Mehmet Murat ildan

Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real. - Ángel González

The Book of Life was created as a tool for humans to use to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and power. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary! - Mehek Bassi

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud. - Louis Sachar

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. - Charles Baudelaire

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man. - Ezra Pound

I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale. - China Miéville

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. - Colin Firth

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned. - Richard P. Denney

Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human lif. It is much more serious. For when you end the life of a book you destroy the ideas of countless thinkers who inspired it, and condemn future generations to darkness and ignorance. - Photozeiger

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. - Ursula K. Le Guin

If a religious book makes you harbor ill thoughts about those with differing faith, then, you're reading the wrong crap of late. - Fakeer Ishavardas

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell

After a life of being entombed, essentially a slave to an unfair beginning,I am free. I'm a liberated whore of the world with little to no inhibitions."(Annie from upcoming book 3) - Robert Kimbrell

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. - Abraham Lincoln

Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace! - William Shakespeare

Fiction is the best the self-help book. - Quinn Barrett

It is aptly said FACEBOOK for it being used only as a BOOK by most people for the compilation of own photo to show their true FACE only. - Anuj Somany

Fear no one nor kneel before themFor many seek to be your god and masterAnd you sacrificial lamb in their fevered plansAnd insane ambitionsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter. - Toba Beta

Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality. - Nathalie M. Llanto

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer. - Neil Gaiman

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals. - Richard Dawkins

For every question, there is a book. - Robert Goolrick

A book can not control you when you are the writter. - Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon

You turned the page, i burned the book. - Anonymous

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. - Ambrose Bierce

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book. - Ashwin Sanghi

I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book - J.K. Rowling

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. - A.D. Posey

Book is book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. - Kate DiCamillo

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. - Nora Roberts

That is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we wouldn't ordinarily know. A good book is a magic gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. Books are experiences that make us grow, that add something to our inner stature. - Gladys M. Hunt

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - from Pageturner in 365 Tomorrows - Joseph Patrick Pascale

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit. - John Raptor

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. - Shannon L. Alder

He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings! - Emily Dickinson

Life is Like a Book, You cant Just read the Back, you Have to Dive in and Experience The Story within - Look Im A Cat

Throw away the rule book and create your own. - Sandra Bellamy

Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! - Stephen D. Krashen

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual. - Compton Gage

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. - Thea Dorn

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

Even though everything today is available at a click of a mouse still, the smell of a book and its feel makes the experience of reading very special and personal. It is more tangible and I urge all youngsters to read a lot as it will also broaden their horizons. - Shallu Jindal

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. - Madeleine L'Engle

It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression. - Nahisha McCoy

Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages. - Israelmore Ayivor

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. - Ann Marie Frohoff

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. - Ashly Lorenzana

A love-story is a book to be read by everyone whose heart beats for someone! - Archana Chaurasia Kapoor

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better. - Paulo Coelho

Dreams are a good source for book ideas. - Mary Sage Nguyen

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. - Kenneth Rexroth

In a weak moment, I have written a book. - Margaret Mitchell

This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make. - Steve Maraboli

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. - Kurt Vonnegut

Everything opens a new door, a book opens a new door, facts open a new door. So choose your favourite thing and I promise it will open a door. - Deyth Banger

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. - Anne Enright

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. - Anatole France

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. - Vera Nazarian

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. - Andrei Tarkovsky

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction. - Shannon L. Alder

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. - B.R. Myers

No book or theory can serve as a substitute for lived experience. - Marty Rubin

...for every type of idea someone can have - no matter how weird or strange or gross or out there or disturbing - there is at least one person out there who enjoys that kind of idea, and the best part is seeing a book work its way to that person. - Stylo Fantome

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by . - Lani Brown

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. - Samuel Johnson

(A point of view of a stupidy of mankind)...Hey... did you check out the book by Stephen King in 7 June published??... (I was talking to one friend if I can put him as a friend...)The teacher says "Stop with this books.."... pff I said once not twice, why to stop? - Deyth Banger

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests. - C.S. Lewis

When we observe the words printed in a book, its paper, seemingly a foot away, is not being perceived--the image, the paper, is the perception. - Robert Lanza

I love the paradise of being between the pages of a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes. - Jeff Nunokawa

Ever since we’d found Wilson, his cousin’s calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2 - A.E.H. Veenman

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. - Herman Melville

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. - Ambrose Bierce

Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity." from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul - Angelica Hopes

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book. - Kin Hubbard

Dare to DreamYes, if you can dare to dream.Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam.While all else seems to fail.Truth shall forever prevail.(Copyright excerpts from the poem and published poetry book 'From the Silence Within - Madhavi Sood

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion - Bookvergent

No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books. - Winkie Pratney

When a new book is published, read an old one. - Samuel Rogers

Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book. - Richard P. Denney

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. - Iain Banks

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish. - Keith Donohue

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book. - Junot Díaz

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better. - Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a book I can no longer read. - Floriano Martins

The world exists to end up in a book. - Stéphane Mallarmé

Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s right. I fucked Jack Black. Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that’s a relationship in my book. And by the way, this is my book. - Kathy Griffin

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle. - Mickey Spillane

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us. - David Ben-Gurion

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion. - Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy."[Harry Potter Beyond the Page: A Virtual Author Visit with (Scholastic / Stacks webcast, October 11, 2012)] - J.K. Rowling

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! - Ashwin Sanghi

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. - Theodore Parker

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself. - C.E. Dimond

I have a right to DNF a book I can't find a fuck to give about. Life is too short to read shitty books. - Sana Khalid

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. - David Foster Wallace

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats. - Ray Bradbury

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives. - Calvin Trillin

My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever - Daniel Marques

I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility. - Hanya Yanagihara

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary. - Janna Malamud Smith

Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book. - BeaOngjoco

From darkness; take me unto Light.O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight.From sorrow; give me the strength to break. And help me to love and to care.From darkness take me unto Light.O God! Hear my prayers and let in the sunlight. (excerpts of my poem from my book 'From the Silence Within') - Madhavi Sood

We are all characters in the book of life. - John E. Carson

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back. - Edgar Watson Howe

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. - J.E.B. Spredemann

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

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. - Britney Spears

He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows. - Oscar Wilde

Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life. - Debasish Mridha

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel. - Stewart Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book - Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt

From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort. - Sunday Adelaja

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

Never go anywhere without a book in your hands. - JBeartheBW

It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others. - John Paul Warren

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. - William Styron

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. - Frank Serafini

A girl is not a predictable book but is a closed diary - ashadnan

This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life. - Christian Tetzlaff

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA. - Alexander Chee

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion. - Ellen Kushner

A life is like a book of many chapters, some interesting, a few boring,a handful sad,one or two memorable, many joyful and others thoughtful. - Elzabeth Adeniyi

Make not the scars of yesterdayMake you bitter todayYesterday has passedAnd like water in a river once passed Can never be returnedThe KhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul. - Patricia Reilly Giff

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'. - Lemony Snicket

For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys. - Daniel Henderson

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:1. To kiss2. To sip coffeeToo bad both are a luxury. - Saleem Sharma

Be gentle with othersFor many hurt though you see it notSome wounds are invisible yet deepKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. - Jim Bishop

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. - Michael Bassey Johnson

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award - Kate DiCamillo

He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book. - Amy Plum

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature. - P.G. Wodehouse

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes. - Jorge Luis Borges

What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences? - Deyth Banger

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. - Harold S. Kushner

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! - Martin Luther

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. - Fran Lebowitz

Think about it. If I say to you, "Oh! I wrote a 500-page book on that!" Don’t your eyebrows go up? - Dr Margaret Aranda

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. - Santosh Kalwar

The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another. - Kira Hawke

A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt. - Deyth Banger

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. - Mark Twain

Never judge a book by its movie. - J. W. Eagan

In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It’s climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days. - Hilary Mantel

No one has a favorite book - they just fall in love with the spell the author put into the pages. - McKenna Paulson

I believehaving a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt

Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life. - Kevin Focke

Reading is a test, Its test like a water drop.Famine like you din't even saw it, but when you try to read a book its hard to take a startup but then as long as you read it you getting inside of it! - shuhab

Read everyday quotes start from easy which don't want a lot of thinking, then average,then something complex. This will re-wire your brain, however if you find a book of quotes I suggest you to read all quotes slow and even if you don't get a quote or quotes read them as much time as possible. - Deyth Banger

You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson. But sometimes it's difficult to get it! - Deyth Banger

The Bible is the greatest book of all times. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody reads poetry anymoreSo who the hell are youI see bent over this book? - Aleksandar Ristović

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story. - Rebecca Allard

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good. - Astrid Lindgren

If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that’s different; it makes it worthwhile then. - Alan Marshall

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - too sad story. This book is very good and sad - John Boyne, El niño con el pijama de rayas

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it. - Joan Didion

The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce

The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. ( in a "Times-Picayune" book review. - Susan Larson

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. - Jeanette Winterson

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book. - Muriel Clark

Oh for a book and a shady nook... - John Wilson

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation. - William McKinley

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that. - Ashly Lorenzana

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - W.H. Auden

Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie. - Ashwin Sanghi

The name of this book is mysterious. - Pseudonymous Bosch

A big book is a big bore.

I hate metaphors. That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal. - Ron Swanson

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves. - Carolyn Parkhurst

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page. - Augustine of Hippo

Give a man a beer, the remote and a La-Z-Boy and he’s a happy camper! All Things Caveman humor cartoon book will help you understand that hairy guy beside you. - Laurie Foxx

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face. - Markus Zusak

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. - W. E. B. du Bois

When asked for the details of an ideal date, I answered, "I want him to take me to a book store, so he can see just how happy I can be. - Camille Cabujat

Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness. - Chris Salamone

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit - Stephen King

If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate. - Fakeer Ishavardas

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. - Brandon Mull

The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at least half the illnesses of mankindwill disappear once our food supplies are raised from fertile soil and consumed in a fresh condition. - Albert Howard

Don't leave life until life leaves you.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! - Fatima Masood

The Bible is just a book. But, you choose whether to prove it's all true or nothing. - Shim Steward

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. - Cicero

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing… Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy - Sarah J. Pepper

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie. - Nikita Dudani