Book Eating Quotes

#1. Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened.

Connie Willis

#2. He's back to eating cat food around the clock. And no abdominal workouts for that one. Every day of the year is fat cat day in his book.

Lauren Mechling

#3. The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it's too late and you're face down eating sand.

Buffy Andrews

#4. Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

Blake Butler

#5. Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

#6. You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab.
"Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!

Rachel Caine

#7. I took out the book once more. Snails can sleep for three years without eating. Snail comas. Welcome to my world.

Shelly Crane

#8. In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.

Bee Wilson

#9. To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie - the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.

Sarah Weeks

#10. The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

John Redwood

#11. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaking, hoping someone would like it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. I'm bookbrained-the act of book obsession common in writers. Not to be confused with bookbrains, a delicacy for zombies when eating the former.

Zara Steen

#14. I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

Dolly Parton

#15. They're going to burn this complete collection of MacDonald's children's book There's a new translation out in paperback but I've always dreamed of eating the entire twelve-volume set in hardcover I refuse to watch something so delicious get turned to charcoal right in front of me

Mizuki Nomura

#16. Reading my books is like a slice of pie,
You can eat it fast, or slow, the choice is up to you

Janelle R. Moore

#17. In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies ... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'

Robert Pattinson

#18. I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt

Nix Banner

#19. There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.

Judith Flanders

#20. It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.

Gillian Flynn

#21. Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment - as short as following three breaths - to connect with a deeper sense of yourself.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. I had so much fun writing this book and I want readers to have fun also. A Passion for Prying is a feel-good, fun read. It's like eating a delicious, sinful hot fudge sundae--pure fun and indulgence.

Nancy Mangano

#23. Hetty was eating, rather than reading, large slabs of a very thin book of contemporary verse each page having a thick wodge of print, without capital letters, starting at the top and running nearly to the bottom. Her eyes were very close to the book and she frowned with concentration.

Stella Gibbons

#24. Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

Socrates

#25. Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

Susan Rothenberg

#26. In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

Robert Klein

#27. Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#28. Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#29. This book I'm reading says if you want to be as thin as a stalk of celery, then that's what you should be eating. I'm not sure I want to look like celery, but I know I don't want to look like a biscuit.

Rebecca Rasmussen

#30. The concern was about getting the beginning right, and then life and eternity would take care of themselves. We have been preoccupied with getting the end right, for some reason.

Richard Rohr

#31. I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?

Julian Sands

#32. It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#33. A necklace of sweat had formed around her throat. Beneath her shirt, a book was eating her up

Anonymous

#34. After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

#35. I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

J.K. Rowling

#36. A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Jeremy Collier

#37. I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

Ian Rankin