Book Quotes

Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.

~ Khadija Rupa

Indeed, there is something about reading in a restaurant that is borderline romantic. Leaning back in that corner booth, an evocative title in our hands, a stale cup of java in front of us, every so often bolting forward to jot a phrase onto the napkin, we look like, well, poets-unknown belletrists scraping through the hardscrabble years and awaiting the distinction that is imminent. the waiter of waitress refills our cup, we drop a memorable apothegm or two, share a laugh fraught with meaning, scope out the joint, and return to our tome. Nonbiblioholics strain to espy our title; conversation is struck up on things Kafkaesque and Kierkegaardian; and we forge a genuine biblioholic simpatico with all around.

~ Tom Raabe

I always thought 'love at first sight' was silly and incredibly irresponsible. Then, you came along and you flipped it on me. I understand it now. I do! ~Sheriff Derrick Decker

~ Laney Smith

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

~ Jill Lepore

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas. Paper was invented so we wouldn’t have to keep all those thoughts in our heads.

~ Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

The opening notes of a song began, some plucking of guitar strings. I knew the melody. It was Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved.” As pop songs went, it was pretty damn good, a bit of a favorite of mine.

~ Kylie Scott

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic and dispensable, Federman and Shirky provide the intellectual cover that allows thoughtful people to slip comfortably in the permanent state of distractedness that defines the online life.

~ Nicholas Carr

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit.

~ Paul Travis

At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

~ Paul Travis

I’ll tell you, but it’s a whole book.

~ Gordon Merrick

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

~ Shannon Taylor Hodnett

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

~ Debasish Mridha

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

~ Aman Jassal

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

~ Aman Jassal

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

~ Aman Jassal

I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

~ Ronald Sukenick

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

~ Aman Jassal

In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.

~ Markus Zusak

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

~ Aman Jassal

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

~ Ryan Lilly

Books are the mirror of the soul , the more you read the more you appear.

~ Osunsakin Adewale

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

~ Gabrielle Zevin

And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

~ Richard House

There is no better adviser than a good book.

~ Debasish Mridha

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

~ Aman Jassal

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

~ Aman Jassal

People will often give you a detailed tour of the underside of the bus that they will throw you under later.

~ Steffan Piper

What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We are all characters in the book of life.

~ John E. Carson

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

~ C.j. Heath

Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.

~ Rick Yancey

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

~ Aman Jassal

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

~ Aman Jassal

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page - the writer's obviously going to be trying their hardest there, aren't they? It's how they're getting on by page 123 that's the real test. If they're crap at writing or bored with their story then you can bet they won't be making any effort at all by that point.

~ Siobhan Curham

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

~ Plato

The good thing about having our buttons pushed is that we can no longer ignore the sensitive areas where we need to heal.

~ Mary Buchan

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A world without books would be a world not worth living in.

~ Eugenia Argerami