Random Book Quotes

#1. I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. - Author: Deborah Copaken Kogan

#2. I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt - Author: Nix Banner

#3. When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not. - Author: Carl Hiaasen

#4. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her. - Author: Ettore Scola

#5. The brightest moments of human discovery are those unplanned and random instants when you thumb through a strange book in a foreign library or talk auto maintenance with a neuroanatomist. We need our searches to include cross-wiring and dumb accidents, too, not just algorithmic surety. - Author: Michael Harris

#6. But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking. - Author: Beth Ann Fennelly

#7. he hadn't killed or shagged even one single person in front of me - which I felt was a rather good indication of his superior character. - Author: Hettie Ivers

#8. It's funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you've always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else. - Author: Brian Joyce

#9. You have about as much chance of contacting the Universal Mind with a spell from a book as you do of reaching the White House by dialing random numbers into a phone. - Author: Katherine Lampe

#10. It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book. - Author: James Salter

#11. Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you? - Author: Mariko Tamaki

#12. I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire. - Author: Jonathan Tropper

#13. I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it! - Author: Nina Dobrev

#14. My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams. - Author: Nenia Campbell

#15. On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply. - Author: Edward Gorey

#16. You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because' cards. They can't even ask you why you did it. - Author: Brian Regan

#17. To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. - Author: Carlos Maria Dominguez

#18. The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process ... Because photographers ... think things through and ... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't. - Author: Sam Abell

#19. One time, in New Orleans at a youth convention for my church, I read out of the phone book during a talent show. I made it all the way to 'J' before people started booing. - Author: Travis J. Dahnke

#20. Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case. - Author: Carla H. Krueger

#21. OUTLANDER A Delta Book PUBLISHING HISTORY Delacorte Press hardcover edition published 1991 Delta trade paperback edition/July 2001 Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc. - Author: Diana Gabaldon

#22. Who is your favorite character in the series? Or ... if that's too hard, why do you like each one and who drives you crazy?
Puck: Well, she likes me best, of course. I'm the handsome, charming one.
Ash: Yes, that's why she gave you your own book. Oh, wait.
Puck: No one asked you, ice-boy. - Author: Julie Kagawa

#23. Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public. - Author: Ann Coulter

#24. I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, which is totally random, but I love him. Just finished the new Joan Didion book, Blue Nights, which I loved. I haven't been to the movies in God knows how long. I haven't been doing anything but living in a bubble, making jewelry! - Author: Pamela Love

#25. I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that makes a vague narrative sense. Sometimes it sort of makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. - Author: David Shrigley

#26. Dogs are angels full of poop. - Author: Oliver Gaspirtz

#27. A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. - Author: Amy Summers

#28. He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps. - Author: Graham Greene

#29. Careless of books, yet having felt the power
Of Nature, by the gentle agency
Of natural objects, led me on to feel
For passions that were not my own, and think
(At random and imperfectly indeed)
On man, the heart of man, and human life. - Author: William Wordsworth