Top 100 Favorite Book Quotes
#1. She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.
Sarah Mayberry
#2. 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
#3. How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read.
Anonymous
#4. I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
Gary Paulsen
#5. Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#6. You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.
Les Claypool
#7. If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.
Sarah Dessen
#8. While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.
James Luceno
#9. What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.
Peter Facinelli
#10. My favorite book title ever is Ross Thomas' THE FOOLS IN TOWN ARE ON OUR SIDE. Good book too as I recall read it a long time ago but Ross Thomas is consistently good.
Howard Kaplan
#11. Like your mouth has the gift of reading and I'm your favorite book. Find your favorite page in the soft spot between my legs and read it carefully. Fluently. Vividly. Don't you dare leave a single word untouched. And I swear my ending will be so good.
Rupi Kaur
#12. You're writing someone's 'future' favorite book.
M. Kirin
#13. Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.
Patrick Rothfuss
#14. A tale dark and Grimm is my favorite book of all time because it gives me the chills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adam Gidwitz
#15. I just want to write someone's favorite book.
Markus Zusak
#16. I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.
Stephen Chbosky
#17. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
Gabrielle Zevin
#18. I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask". I was not afraid to ask.
Drew Barrymore
#19. I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.
Evangeline Lilly
#20. I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that's okay.
Ari Eastman
Ari Eastman
#21. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, which was Steve Jobs's favorite book. 9.
Vishen Lakhiani
#22. Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
Franz Wright
#23. My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
Ed Emberley
#24. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book. My
Stephen Chbosky
#25. What's your favorite book, and please don't let it be Catcher in the Rye."
"Why the hell not?" Theo asked.
"Because that will mean you haven't picked up a book of your own accord since high school.
Anyta Sunday
#26. If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
Marisol Nichols
#27. 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.
Libba Bray
#28. (LuAnn) Whatever. That'll teach me not to build my life around a man whose favorite book is Atlas Shrugged. Listen, kid." She waggles her finger, as if scolding me. "Nothing good comes from Ayn RAnd. Trust me on this.
Abby McDonald
#29. If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was A Secret Garden.
Joyce Tenneson
#30. This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
William Goldman
#31. I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
Jack Reynor
#32. I don't have a favorite book, I have hundreds
J.K. Rowling
#33. My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about.
Bradley Steven Perry
#34. I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
Dylan O'Brien
#36. 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
Elizabeth Olsen
#37. My favorite book is my next one. I'm always hoping to make my next book my best one.
Mo Willems
#38. It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.
James Patterson
#39. Once upon a time in a basement library nook,
I stumbled upon my first favorite book.
Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled,
I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.
Tyrean Martinson
#41. One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.
E. M. Forster
#42. Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy
#43. Grabbed my duffel, my toothbrush, and a signed copy of my favorite book. Just the essentials.
C.M. Stunich
#44. Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.
John Shelby Spong
#45. Never judge a book by the cover, you may miss out on what could be your favorite book
Sharon Watkins
#46. My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.
Francine Rivers
#47. My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
Stephen Ambrose
#48. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
#49. It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in bed with my favorite book. Well, actually it was a magazine.
Tom Arnold
#51. For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin
#52. When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
Madison Pettis
#53. RUNT is my FAVORITE book.It starts out small.Then,it gets exciting in the middle.In the end it settled.
Marion Dane Bauer
#54. I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
Martin Freeman
#55. They aren't for disguise at all. You just didn't want to leave behind your favorite book.
Susan Dennard
#56. My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#57. My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
Meg Cabot
#58. My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.
Emma Roberts
#59. My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman
#60. I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
Meghan Trainor
#61. BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.
Rob Brezsny
#62. My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.
Torii Hunter
#63. My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.
Steven Wright
#64. My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.
Steve Aoki
#65. I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Francine Pascal
#66. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders.
Rupert Grint
#67. The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.
Mem Fox
#68. I held up the book - Green Eggs and Ham - and began reading. I smiled; it was one of my favorite books from my childhood.
Angela Graham
#69. What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.
Chris Evans
#70. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
Joyce Rachelle
#71. When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.
Rick Riordan
#72. The Notebook ... that's my favorite one. I've read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.
Kevin Gates
#73. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
James Frain
#74. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.
Zack Snyder
#75. My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
Amy Tan
#76. My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.
Maria Semple
#77. There are some things in life a person just cant know
Sarah Weeks
#78. My favorite business book of all time is experience.
Noah Kagan
#79. My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.
Joe Lhota
#80. [My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
Nikki Giovanni
#81. Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade
Cassandra Clare
#82. I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.
Anthony Geary
#83. It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.
Joseph Parker
#84. I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.
Matthew Quick
#85. You're Subject A-two," Newt answered. Then he lowered his eyes
"And?" Thomas pushed.
Newt hesitated, then answered without looking at him. "It doesn't call you anything. It just says ... 'To be killed by Group B.
James Dashner
#86. Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.
Jean Nathan
#87. A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.
Caroline Leavitt
#88. Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.
David Farland
#89. Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.
Patrick Rothfuss
#90. Hush, little students, we'll say the word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Mama's gonna write down everything.
And so that book won't look the same,
Mama's gonna add a brand-new name.
Daisy Whitney
#91. Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
Rachel Nichols
#92. I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
Bart Chilton
#93. All I know is, being away from you ... makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much
Samantha Towle
#94. One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again.
Daphne Du Maurier
#95. 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
#96. If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
Ann Beattie
#97. Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
Jeannette Walls
#98. It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#99. One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
Brit Marling
#100. Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if you haven't read it you should you will probably fell just as I fell.
Rachel Renee Russell
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