Top 100 Book You Quotes
#1. With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.
Jonathan Lethem
#3. I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.
Doris Lessing
#4. A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.
Jessica Mitford
#5. He hums a little. He's a really old guy with an English accent, he might have a goatee, and he'll definitely be carrying around a really thick, boring book. You might be able to pry it from his decaying hands and beat him back to death with it. Or maybe just reading it to him would work.
Kasie West
#6. From a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life.
Chloe Thurlow
#7. Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.
Paul Theroux
#8. (in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even forgotten you have read, is still a book you have read)
Pierre Bayard
#9. Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
Salman Rushdie
#10. Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
Joseph Cook
#11. Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Tony Williams
#13. Think about what you have to share that could be of some value to people. Share a handy tip you've discovered while working. Or a link to an interesting article. Mentition a good book you're reading.
Austin Kleon
#14. I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
Umberto Eco
#15. In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#16. Because they don't have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.
Jodi Meadows
#17. If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.
Jill Paton Walsh
#18. You know you're in a bad patch when the most interesting part of the book you're reading is the acknowledgments page.
Sara Nelson
#19. The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
Mary MacLane
#20. When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
Fran Lebowitz
#21. Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.
Maggie Stiefvater
#22. When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.
John Hodgman
#23. At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.
Cassandra Clare
#25. Dark books say to us, "This isn't about you. You are in fact alive and safe." Yes, there's an implicit and unavoidable warning, an edge of danger; these things happen, the books say. And yet, as bad as it gets inside this book, you, the reader, are securely outside. If
Pamela Paul
#26. I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.
Joy Cowley
#27. The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it.
Mark Forsyth
#28. Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.
James Altucher
#29. 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
Elizabeth Olsen
#30. If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.
Tony La Russa
#31. When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Paul McCartney
#32. Was there anything more wonderful than sending someone home with a book you loved? No, there was not.
Kylie Scott
#33. Write the book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
Hilary Mantel
#34. I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
Joe Meno
#35. If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.
Shel Silverstein
#36. Hey guys i would like you to try this book you will love it!
Jeff Kinney
#37. If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.
Wes Smith
#38. This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter
Sarah Vowell
#39. Language is a door. Words en-trance and are an entrance; they draw you in. When you read, the book you cradle disappears and the tales within unfold in your mind. Writing is a shelter of words and reading an interior adventure.
Laurie Seidler
#40. These days I have a ton of things to smile about. I feel like an adult again. I hope by reading this book, you or someone you care about will see that there will be things for you to smile about, even small things, as you work to recover from a TBI or another disability.
Amy Rankin
#41. If you find a book you like on Amazon, please buy it somewhere else!
Robin Sacredfire
#42. With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Andre Gide
#43. 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
#44. You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.
Stephen Colbert
#46. Always be prepared one day the electricity will stop if your phone isn't charged well and you don't have the need stuff you will get bored very easy. For example you can't read a physical book, you will need a torchlight, but if you have a book on your phone you can read it also you can listen!
Deyth Banger
#47. If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way.
David Mitchell
#48. Life is too short to spend on a book you don't enjoy.
Katrina-Jane
#49. Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
Douglas Adams
#50. One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wrote; that's all.
Samuel R. Delany
#51. Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?
Django Wexler
#52. Letter from Griffith-- "I know it is difficult, but do work harder to control yourself. Mother was beside herself with worry when she found you rolling on the floor laughing over a book you were reading."
The memory brought a curve to Miranda's lips. It had been a very funny book.
Kristi Ann Hunter
#53. A long time ago, I heard a piece of advice that went something like "write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't." And that's what I do...
Maggie Stiefvater
#54. When you dream you are creating the future, your inner world. By the time you finish this book, you will have a deeper understanding of how to harmonize your inner and outer world.
Ruben Papian
#55. You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
Oliver Stone
#56. I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: 'Are you free tonight and d'you wanna go to the roller-disco? Or play pool?'
Rosamund Pike
#57. I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.
Chris Brown
#58. With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
John Irving
#59. I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.
Noah Hathaway
#60. In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
Yann Martel
#61. If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.
Rita Mae Brown
#62. Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
Louis L'Amour
#63. A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive - which is knowledge - alive forever.
Tad Williams
#64. No, she lies. Because she's polite enough to know that if someone gives you a book, you owe that person the pretense that you haven't read it.
Fredrik Backman
#65. When you steal a book, you steal from the world. the Library propaganda said
Rachel Caine
#66. I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me!
Kathryn Lasky
#67. That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.
Susanna Kearsley
#68. Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#69. For a woman who claims to be an open book, you hide so much." He runs his thumb down the side of my neck, over the hollow in my collarbone. "Next time you strip for me, you're taking off more than your clothes.
Lexi Ryan
#70. There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
Hanya Yanagihara
#71. Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart ... It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.
Eddie Cahill
#72. The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.
Amanda Penland
#73. This book is the book you have just read. It's done.
Neil Gaiman
#74. If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.
Jesse Andrews
#75. All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
B.o.B
#76. Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.
Jesse Schell
#77. Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
Salman Rushdie
#78. As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.
David Bergen
#79. Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
Soren Kierkegaard
#80. Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
Sergey Brin
#81. If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.
William Muller
#82. Every book you've ever read is just a different combination of 26 letters.
Unknown
#84. When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E.L. Doctorow
#85. With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.
Michelle Moran
#86. When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
Richard Grossman
#87. Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
J.A. Konrath
#88. Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
Bob Seger
#89. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
Paul Theroux
#90. Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
Brian Greene
#91. I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
Paula Danziger
#92. You ought to write a real book, Rix. You know, something that could really happen. That horror shit is junk. Why don't you write a book you'd be proud to sign your real name to?
Robert McCammon
#93. Write the best book you can, the one that demands to be written, no matter what genre it is. Even a trend the trades tell you has gone stale can be revitalized by a superb piece of writing. It'll never be revitalized by someone jumping on a trend bandwagon.
Jonathan Maberry
#94. You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
Renzo Piano
#95. I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.
Marguerite Duras
#96. If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.
Tucker Max
#97. Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use."
"And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
Agatha Christie
#98. Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand.
Peter Richards
#99. As long as you have a book, you are never truly alone.
Sunny Wolfe
#100. I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
Marisha Pessl
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