Book Quotes

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
Virginia Woolf

God, Job, Night

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg

Become, Coming, Infected

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
James Russell Lowell

Time, Old, Sense

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka

Sea, Within, Serve

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt

Dead, Read, Language

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham

Eyes, Read, Meaning

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

Life, Single, Become

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Human, Choice

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
Gore Vidal

Down, Question, Opinions

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley

Life, Him, Whole

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

Ignore, Return, Offer

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
Jimmy Carter

Home, Experience, Knowledge

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Difficult, Write

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Power, Ignorance, Bad

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Carter G. Woodson

Him, Thought, Almost

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
E. O. Wilson

Earth, Possible, Audience

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie

Time, Best, While

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Toni Morrison

Write, Read, Written

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker

Good, Art, Live

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden

Real, Read, Reads

Rereading, we find a new book.
Mason Cooley

Find, Rereading

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William Hazlitt

Before, Read, Three

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia Woolf

Women, War, Important

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
Ellen DeGeneres

Music, Work, Fun

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie

Writing, Two, Same

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere

Work, Famous, Done

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
Steve Martin

Down, Play, Learned

I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
Steve Martin

True, Thought, Means

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
Steve Martin

Music, Writing, Put

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry

Give, Away, Pregnant

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