For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

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

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
John Le Carre

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
John Le Carre

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
John le Carre

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
David Livingstone

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
Joan Collins

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

My career is an open book, but my life is not.
Barry Bonds

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Graham Greene

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Pierre Bayle

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki Murakami

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. Forster

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
Gloria Estefan

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham