Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.
Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.
I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.
You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.
People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.