Book Quotes

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

Life, Good, Try

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
Joan Rivers

Work, Care, Fire

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
Robert W. Service

Fire, Friends, Honest

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

Long, Through, Tends

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Chuck Palahniuk

Joy, Impossible, Sick

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran Lebowitz

School, High, Cause

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace

Great, Truth, Art

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
George W. Bush

Write, Read, Less

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
Chuck Palahniuk

Moment, Surprises, Turns

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson

Library, Turn, Half

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier

Money, Brain, Boxing

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk

Care, Long, Check

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk

Children, Trying, Stories

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

Dreams, Writing, Soul

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison

Write, Read, Written

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen Hawking

Someone, Sales, Equation

Beware of the person of one book.
Thomas Aquinas

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll

Thought, Pictures, Alice

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

Best, Long, Give

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
Beverly Cleary

Sunday, Rainy, Since

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel Johnson

Hard, Lost, Down

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire

Company, Party, Garden

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton

Life, Time, Sensible

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg

Written, Title, Till

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne

Education, Good, True

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry A. Kissinger

Tell, Mistake, Frank

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

Dead, Talent, Genius

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
Lord Byron

Nothing, Sure, Name

A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller

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