Top 100 Book Cover Quotes
#1. The screen blanked, then produced a book cover. The jacket image - in black-and-white - showed barking dogs surrounding a scarecrow. In the background, shoulders slumped in a posture of weariness or defeat (or both), was a hunter with a gun. The eponymous Cortland, probably.
Stephen King
#2. Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, Hi. Thanks for writing me!
Alvi Syahrin
#3. The Software You will have to buy Microsoft Office, which contains PowerPoint, or you can download the freeware OpenOffice, which contains Impress. Once you understand the basics of how to use these programs to create the book cover, you may prefer to use some other presentation software. Both
Jimmy Clay
#4. What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.
Laini Taylor
#5. A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
Chip Kidd
#6. Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.
Newt Gingrich
#7. 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
#8. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover.
Chloe Neill
#9. For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.
John Van Hamersveld
#10. What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover ...
Anne Rice
#11. There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
Banksy
#12. Schwartz is an encyclopedia of psychological research on choice problems. If asked to give a quote about him for the back of a book cover, I would say, "This motherfucker knows choice." As
Aziz Ansari
#13. If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am an easy-to-read work on espionage, romance, a celebrity, and/or murder. To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them: Hello. I am crap.
Paul Collins
#14. I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!
Chip Kidd
#15. But I felt as if I'd just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn't used to, it was being ignored
Rick Riordan
#16. I think life is a book," Eleanor said. "God writes it. We're His characters. He knows what happens on the next page, but we don't. Heaven is where we get to read the book cover to cover and see how it all makes sense.
Tiffany Reisz
#17. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.
Khaled Hosseini
#18. Sometimes I'll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I'll flip the book over to look at the cover to see who wrote it, only to discover that it feels like it was written for me because it was written by me.
Jarod Kintz
#19. CONTENTS Cover About the Book Title Page Colour First Reader Dedication Chapter
Jacqueline Wilson
#20. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Axl Rose
#21. You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill.
Gunplay
#22. But you're kind of like a great book ... you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful cover ... but it's what's inside that pulls you in.
Miranda Kenneally
#23. This would be ... a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them
with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
Eudora Welty
#26. 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
#27. But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
Pearl S. Buck
#28. You can judge this book by its cover.
Tom Icon
#29. I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
Jonathan Franzen
#30. Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume...
Deyth Banger
#31. Jun Do held the book, felt its soft cover. "I could read some with you," she said. "Do you know of Christ?" Jun Do nodded. "I've been briefed on him.
Adam Johnson
#32. Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave you a bit of an insight on what was on the inside.
Lindsay Patton
#33. If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING!
(according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)
Pseudonymous Bosch
#34. A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'
Dennis Christopher
#35. If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
Meg Wolitzer
#36. If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.
Margaret Atwood
#37. remember the old adage "You can't judge a book by its cover"? I'm here to tell you that's complete bullshit
Tim Castleman
#38. Judging a book by its cover was standard practice in human relations.
Kenneth Eade
#39. Sometimes, I stay up all night reading book after book, for I have no family to object, and when I wake in the morning, slumped over a table or fallen off a chair, back aching, cold because no one thought to cover me with a blanket or tell me to come to bed, I feel very fortunate." Silence
Alex Flinn
#40. You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price.
Amy Clipston
#41. Haven't you learned you should never judge a book by its cover? There is a lot of assumptions you've made based on appearance.
S.J.D. Peterson
#42. This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It's mostly pink. If you're reading this book every night for months, something is not right.
Mindy Kaling
#43. When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
Billy Bob Thornton
#44. Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
Erik Naggum
#45. Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.
Pearl Zhu
#46. 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
#47. If you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.
Benjamin Franklin
#48. She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.
Nikki Rosen
#49. Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression
L. Neal
#50. Be the prettiest book I ever seen. The cover is pale blue, color a the sky. And a big white bird - a peace dove - spreads its wings from end to end.
Kathryn Stockett
#51. Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought
Henning Mankell
#52. The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book of a shelf calmed her. Opening the cover, feeling the paper's smoothness, smelling the sheets, the leather, even sometimes the ink, centered her.
M.J. Rose
#53. Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else.
Edwin Rolfe And Lester Fuller
#54. A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
Emily Rodda
#55. With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact - often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher.
Christina Baker Kline
#56. The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.
Jay Ryan
#57. Never judge a book by its cover like never judge or underestimate a person on the outside." -
Kate
Kate
#58. Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
Elizabeth George
#59. Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.
John Updike
#60. I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.
Margaret Wise Brown
#61. Among all of the topics I cover in this book, the choice to vaccinate on schedule is backed by the strongest, clearest, biggest pile of evidence.
Alice Callahan
#62. I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
Ozzy Osbourne
#63. Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.
Michael Showalter
#64. You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?" I asked as I closed the book's cover and headed for the door. "They always end up dead.
Leigh Bardugo
#65. (Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen.
Cindy Woodsmall
#67. If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.
Ellen J. Barrier
#68. Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover?
Colleen Hoover
#69. Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#70. A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.
Mark Lawrence
#71. Grampa's long beard was serving as a bookmark in a well-thumbed paperback with a Western-themed cover. I never knew what would catch Grampa's fancy in the book department. He was as likely to be caught reading a gothic romantic suspense as he was a snowblower repair manual.
Jessie Crockett
#73. A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
Gary Shteyngart
#74. For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.
Lemony Snicket
#75. Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
Gabrielle Zevin
#76. Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that ... is that ... well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone.
Yann Martel
#77. A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
Hermann Hesse
#78. Never judge a book by its cover or a movie.
Anonymous
#79. Open a book this minute and start reading. Don't move until you've reached page fifty. Until you've buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
Carol Shields
#80. Katherine, I could die horribly here in this chair, and my blood could spray all over the room and cover the pages of that fascinating book you're reading, and I believe, that you'd just wipe the worst away and keep going.
Helen Oyeyemi
#81. I see that you're observant. You point out that I'm a Goth, I don't talk, and I have a twisted mind when it comes to writing. But, you guessed wrong when you said that I'm a devil worshiper. And I responded to you with a punch in the nose and said,"Don't fucking judge a book by it's cover!
Onyx
#82. Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.
Simon Garfield
#83. Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.
Haruki Murakami
#84. Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.
Ashwin Sanghi
#85. On the table beside me is a book entitled Love's Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My Spectacular Washboard Abs.
Rick Yancey
#86. In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.
Maryrose Wood
#87. FYI, this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It could be read cover-to-cover during one medium-to-severe case of diarrhea.
David Spade
#88. She couldn't imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book - pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful cover before immersing oneself again.
Melissa De La Cruz
#89. Today I am revealing the exciting new book by Author Maggie Carpenter. Stay tuned, because it will be on here soon!
Maggie Carpenter
#90. Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?
James Patterson
#91. So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.
Brandon Sanderson
#92. 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
#93. I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
Criss Jami
#94. What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell
#95. It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
#96. Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
J.A. Konrath
#97. You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
Andrew Long
#98. I even read that book you liked so much. The one with the apple on the cover. Wow! That Edward is ... how did you put it ... dreamy?
Colleen Hoover
#99. You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.
Action Bronson
#100. The cover or jacket protects the book, identifies the author and title, and carries the blurb. The ISBN and bar code enable ordering.
Giles Clark
