Top 69 Book Lines Quotes
#1. If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.
F.K. Preston
#2. My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
Gotze Dijkstra
#3. Chase was gone then, and Donnie was back, alone in his room, wondering about those pictures from an art book he'd so admired. Because it felt like he'd just lived one, and it had been beautiful, so beautiful, and he'd been able to reach out and touch the lines of it, but it still hurt.
Amy Lane
#4. You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.
Jim Thompson
#5. Cut word lines - Cut music lines - Smash the control images - Smash the control machine - Burn the books - Kill the priests - Kill! Kill! Kill!
William S. Burroughs
#6. That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.
Sachin Kundalkar
#7. It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I mean, by this point I know about as much as most 'real' doctors.
Zach Braff
#9. Blurbs don't work anymore!" was another. "You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed at best debatable.
Scott Westerfeld
#10. You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme ... For heavier things
John Mayer
#11. So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.
Matthew Zapruder
#12. I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
Alexander McCall Smith
#13. The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
Daniel Hannan
#14. If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#15. All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?
Chloe Thurlow
#16. Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic
SARK
#17. I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
Beverly Lewis
#18. The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#19. I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
Jared Diamond
#20. I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
Walter Dean Myers
#21. If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.
George Polya
#22. I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.
Ruth Rendell
#23. I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.
Jorge Luis Borges
#24. For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
Nancy Kress
#25. A single bead of water rolled along the length of his spine and glided down the powerful lines of his body. Mariel moistened her lips and watched its seductive descent, overwhelmed with the temptation to trace its path with the tip of her tongue.
Madeline Martin
#26. You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons..
Bill Vaughan
#27. It is better to read twelve lines of a book with the utmost intensity and thus to penetrate into them to the full
Thomas Bernhard
#28. Because they don't have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.
Jodi Meadows
#29. Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
Italo Calvino
#30. Marco could not have known about the mystical effect of a full moon on cats and books left on their own in the library. Not until he saw the lines breathe, the words unveiled.
Rahma Krambo
#31. You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.
Jodi Picoult
#32. In a library in Missouri that was covered with vines
Lived thousands of books in a hundred straight lines
A boy came in at half past nine
Every Saturday, rain or shine
His book selections were clan-des-tine.
Rebecca Makkai
#33. Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.
E.L. Montes
#34. Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.
James Oliver Curwood
#35. In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.
John Le Carre
#36. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Thomas Jefferson
#37. Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.
Chloe Thurlow
#38. You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters! seemed
Scott Westerfeld
#39. Don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.
Zack Snyder
#40. For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.
Hilary Mantel
#41. There is a book waiting for him upon the library table; his eyes fancy they still follow its lines of type, his head still runs upon its argument, his fingers itch to take it up again.
Susanna Clarke
#42. The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands directed at each other's chests; then, recognizing each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and started walking briskly in the same direction.
J.K. Rowling
#43. There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.
Raymond Pettibon
#44. He could traverse any terrain on the planet, kill someone countless ways with his bare hands and can and had survived behind enemy lines with his team on more than one occasion. But the thought of Nora going out with someone else twisted him up
Katie Reus
#45. Thus they in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours, but neither self - condemning;
And of their vain contest' appeared no end.
(The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)
John Milton
#46. I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning
Laura Nyro
#47. A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.
James Scott Bell
#48. Three years to make a book, five lines to ridicule it, and the quotations wrong.
Albert Camus
#49. We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.
J.R. Rim
#50. Boudicca MacDaede was not the most striking of women, but she had a wryness in character and heartiness in form that recommended her to the rough demands of a farmer's daughter and a soldier's sufferance." ~ First two lines of book 1 in the Haanta Series
Michelle Franklin
#51. Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.
Dan Fogelberg
#52. A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
#53. There's a book of poetry
in the lines of my hands
that no one wants to read
Holly Schindler
#54. If anything could be a book, there was no telling what you could learn, if you knew what to look for. Smooth river stones spelled out across a mossy floor. Lines drawn in the sand. Or inscribed on the side of a fallen log, half-obscured by twigs and mulch: This is a book.
Traci Chee
#55. The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses ...
Agnes Repplier
#56. The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
James Spader
#57. He read the familiar first lines of the book and felt the calm come over him, like a comforter.
Louise Penny
#58. I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
Carl Reiner
#59. Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
David Levithan
#61. I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
John Irving
#62. 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
#63. The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#64. If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline's fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?
Kristen Reed
#65. The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
Isabel Allende
#66. Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future ... all the promise it holds ... that's what keeps you moving forward, and out of the darkness.
Samantha Towle
#67. It really isn't hard to write a book that prohibits sexual slavery - you just put in a few lines like "Don't take sex slaves!" and "When you fight a war and take prisoners, as you inevitably will, don't rape any of them!" And yet God couldn't seem to manage it.
Sam Harris
#69. All I know is, being away from you ... makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much
Samantha Towle
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