Top 100 Like A Book Quotes
#1. Relationships are like a book,
It takes few seconds to burn,
But
It takes years to write,
So write it carefully
And
Never let it burn
Aditya Nighot
#2. I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
Walter Jon Williams
#3. Knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.
Christopher Crawford
#5. The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
Anatole Broyard
#6. If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day ... Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.
Elizabeth George Speare
#7. I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
Will Self
#8. In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.
Rudolf Spielmann
#9. You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.
Karen Joy Fowler
#10. You think of me like a book?'
'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.
Beatrice Colin
#11. My happiness is nothing to him," she said. "Only his books! He has made me like a book. I am not meant to be taken, and touched, and liked. I am meant to keep here, in dim light, forever!
Sarah Waters
#12. There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.
Noah Hawley
#13. I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.
Plato
#14. love is like a book it keeps suprising u till the end and u never know when your gonna lose a charecter
Taylor Smith
#15. Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.
Carolina Maria De Jesus
#16. A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
#18. You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.
Shelby Lynne
#19. How strange it was ... , one minute you were all alone with your thoughts, the next somebody came along who seemed to know the deepest part of you, who could open you like a book.
Justin Cronin
#20. If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.
Coleen Murtagh Paratore
#21. 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
#22. Working on any long-term project like a book is a test. Testing your patience is part of the game. Take it in your stride. Don't be so easily defeated.
N.C Harley
#23. Life is like a book. It is your decision to narrate it or to live it
Gabriela Rodriguez
#24. The future is not like a book one can read," he said quietly. "It is ever changing, like the rush of water, or the swirl of sand.
Christie Golden
#25. Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don't stop reading the book! If you do ... then you never get to find out what happens next!
Brian Falkner
#26. He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story.
Katie Kacvinsky
#27. There's always another story. When you read a book again and let your imagination take over, it can take you to new stories, so it's like a book inside the book!
Kate Westerlund
#28. She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as beautiful and pure as that. Real things had happened to her to make her how she was and I wanted to know them, and read them, like a book.
David Mitchell
#29. Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
Alain De Lille
#30. My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.
Nancy E. Turner
#31. Life is like a book starts with title similar to your personal names, begins to give you pleasure with each and every different chapters, and finally ends with lesson learned, leaving you in loneliness again.
Santosh Kalwar
#32. There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.
Daniel Handler
#33. You really should take up boxing, or fencing - "
"Fencing? What century are you from?"
" - or solving crimes."
"Are you prescribing me your company, Doctor?"
"Detective, you can read me like a book." She lifted her glass, and I clinked mine against it.
Brittany Cavallaro
#34. The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world ... the picture ... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.
Pierre Bonnard
#35. Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#36. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn't it?
Harper Lee
#37. I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next book: like, a book about basketball cards, or an unauthorized biography of A. J. Daulerio.
Bill Simmons
#38. Like a book that's never read, the emotions are lost unless given weight and breath and voice.
Emma Scott
#39. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
Libba Bray
#40. Trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.
Cassandra Clare
#41. Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond De Goncourt
#42. Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.
John Steinbeck
#44. A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
Robert Breault
#45. I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid.
Rebecca Stead
#46. Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.
Pamela Anderson
#47. If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#48. life is like a book. some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting, but if you never turn the page... you will never know what the next chapter holds
Unknown
#49. I don't like to make my life like a book.
Marc Newson
#50. There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away ...
Emily Dickinson
#51. You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know.
Peter Frampton
#52. We talked about desire and being jealous,
Our conversation a loose single gown
Or a white picnic tablecloth spread out
Like a book of manners in the wilderness.
Seamus Heaney
#53. The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
Milton Berle
#54. Don't you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you'll soon find its meaning.
Gail Tsukiyama
#55. 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
#56. I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?
Clare Boylan
#57. There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.
Fran Veal
#58. An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot ... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
Chet Faker
#59. Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.
Peter Rosegger
#60. Even sheets felt different at the cottage. On certain days...the sheets were aired out in the sun. I slipped in between two crisp pieces of cloth, like a book mark between two pages.
Amy Willard Cross
#61. I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker
#62. Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
Marianne Williamson
#63. Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly
and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.
Lavie Tidhar
#64. A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?
Elizabeth Adeniyi
#65. Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
Margaret Atwood
#66. I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.
Luke Bryan
#67. I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
Seneca The Younger
#68. Apparently people who were in books actually sounded like a book when they talked. This was quite the surprising discovery.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#70. If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old, subtract your age from 100 and only grant it that many pages.
Nancy Pearl
#71. Arthur felt as though he were being read like a book, and wondered whether this girl would like his story.
Kiersten White
#72. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#73. Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton
#74. I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.
Marilynne Robinson
#75. Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
Jerry Coleman
#76. You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies.
David Fincher
#77. Sometimes, through the window of a car coming the other way, she caught a glimpse if a stranger's face, then it was gone, like a book you open then close at once.
Cornelia Funke
#78. If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.
J.D. Mader
#79. He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#80. There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.
Diane Setterfield
#81. I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
Jennifer Gilmore
#82. I thought women liked to be thought strange and mysterious." "No, they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel.
Harper Lee
#83. Life is like a book. Some of the pages you want to rip out and others you want to keep. I've been ripping out a lot of pages lately, getting rid of the ugly stuff. The stuff that's left behind isn't as bad as I thought it was.
R.K. Ryals
#84. Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.
Marshall Sylver
#85. Fallon, we have been dating for two hours now. I can read you like a book, and right now i do believe that book is full of erotica.
Colleen Hoover
#86. They didn't have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn't have books, yet what's this thing in my hand? It's square, bound paper that's been written on. Looks like a book to me. (Acheron) Thank you, Captain Sarcasm. How nice of you to join us again. (Tory)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. Hell hath no correctly punctuated fury like a book nerd scorned.
Alexandra Petri
#88. A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
Brunello Cucinelli
#89. My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.
Avi
#90. Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.
Mae West
#91. There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#93. Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Mike Tyson
#94. An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.
E. O. Wilson
#95. She is a small woman with a face like a book mite; she is not without opinions.
Lisa Koger
#96. If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.
Emma Donoghue
#97. After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#98. I tried to close my imagination, but it stayed open like a book that has been read too often.
Christie Watson
#99. Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. (Steven Levy)
Walter Isaacson
#100. I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.
Lee Smith
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