Book Quotes

Life can’t be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

~ Colleen Hoover

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

~ Chris Geiger

Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was because both involved suspension--a suspension of weight, a suspension of disbelief--a willingness to surrender to something greater than oneself.

~ Eve Marie Mont

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...

~ Chaim Potok

Motherhood doesn't have a nationality

~ Melinda Cross

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

~ Roger Kahn

This book is a very enjoyable read - I read it in a weekend. Eveline Maedel

~ Vicki M. Taylor

Losing your love hurts more than playing with fire.

~ Leydi Morfa

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

~ Markus Zusak

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

~ Stephen Fry

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.'He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?''Every single time.

~ Elizabeth Hunter

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

~ George R.r. Martin

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

~ S.a. Bodeen

For every question, there is a book.

~ Robert Goolrick

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

~ John Bright

When one star sets, a million spring forth.

~ Vincent Lowry

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

~ Pliny The Younger

Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the Murder, She Wrote novel he bought in Mill Valley.I can't say that I learned much about investigative procedure but I discovered that you should stay far away from Cabot Cove. That tiny New England village is deadlier than Beirut, South Central Los Angeles, and the darkest back alley in Juarez combined. Even though every killer eventually gets caught by Jessica Fletcher, I still wouldn't feel safe there. I'm surprised the old biddy walks around town unarmed.

~ Lee Goldberg

He lived like a devil and died like a saint

~ Haidji

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

~ John Steinbeck

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

~ Sylvia Plath

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

~ Thomas Wolfe

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

~ Kevin O'leary

The comic book world is a tough business.

~ Shia Labeouf

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

~ Alan Garner

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

~ Michael Haneke

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

~ Debi Gliori

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

~ Jeff Kinney

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

~ Jane Goodall

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

~ Moon Unit Zappa

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

~ Sergey Brin

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

~ Helen Garner

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

~ Tracy Kidder

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

~ Margaret Atwood

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

~ Chris Brown

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

~ Kelli O'hara

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

~ Gabrielle Aplin