Last Page Of Book Quotes

#1. The parable of the vineyard spoke very deeply to my heart, especially in the context of someone who has just freshly read the Old Testament from the first page to the last page of the Book of Malachi.

Timothy Sng

#2. If I be just a page torn out of a book,
May I sail forever over the oceans blue,
Float over the treetops and the mountains too,
Drift across the valleys and the flowers look,
Until at last, I rest and kiss the morning dew.

Nancy B. Brewer

#3. When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Nora Ephron

#4. I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Have you ever been heartbroken to finish a book? Has a writer kept whispering in your ear long after the last page is turned?

Elizabeth Maguire

#6. Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Mary Ritter Beard

#7. Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.

Simon Pegg

#8. Option 2: Begin at the End It's sometimes a very fun way to open a book that you show the reader the last scene, the last page, and let them figure out how we all end up there.

Emma Fisher

#9. Toil, comrade," he said, "is the highest aim of our lives. Who does not toil, shall not eat." The book was filled. The official applied his rubber stamp to the last page. The stamp bore a globe overshadowed by a crossed sickle and hammer.

Ayn Rand

#10. the end of the book isn't the last page, it's the last day you think about what you read

Dave Campbell

#11. That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book.

Toni Sorenson

#12. It's sort of like books. Yeah, you know how you read certain books and at the last page you're filled with the story and you sort of don't want to leave the characters?

Tracy Ewens

#13. Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other than a cyclic volume, a circular one. A book whose last page was identical with the first, a book which had the possibility of continuing indefinitely.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. Last page of the book from Hell. Putting her hands on the small of her back, she stretched for the one hundredth time and looked over at

J.R. Ward

#15. They found her with a nearly empty snifter of brandy on the nightstand, a book by her favorite novelist turned to the last page, and a smile on her face.

Dean Koontz

#16. Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.

Fabio Moon

#17. Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.

B.B. Free

#18. We fell
into the book of love
stumbling through the pages
filling up the paragraphs
creating new chapters
right till the very last page
where we fell
out of the book
breaking into pieces
as we fell apart.

Pyrokardia

#19. 'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

Per Petterson

#20. The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

Mickey Spillane

#21. Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?

Percy Lubbock

#22. Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves.

Jeanette Winterson

#23. By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

Terry Pratchett

#24. You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

#25. No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ...

George R R Martin

#26. The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

Ashwin Sanghi

#27. While still a student, Napoleon had written on the last page of his geography book: "St. Helena. Small island." This may have been what we call a coincidence, but the thought must certainly have aroused terror in him in his last days.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#28. If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

#29. I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

Nora Ephron

#30. When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Gregory Maguire

#31. Don't squeak at me, little sister," said Vikram irritably. "Let me choose my own final deed, so the angels have something impressive to write down on the last page of my book.

G. Willow Wilson

#32. If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

#33. I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

#34. I always rip out the last page of a book. That way, it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

The Doctor

#35. And if our love was a story book
We would meet on the very first page
The last chapter would be about
How I'm thankful for the life we've made.I Love You...

J. Hampden Jackson

#36. But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'

Brad Meltzer

#37. He was like something out of a fairytale or a myth, the last of his breed in a world that was writing the last page of its book.

Stephen King

#38. All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

Maureen Corrigan

#39. Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open shelves, but in locked chests.

Joseph Gies

#40. The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

Rachel Gibson

#41. No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

Joseph Wambaugh

#42. The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.

Tor Udall