Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Truman Capote

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Truman Capote

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

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

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.
Thomas Friedman

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

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

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

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Dean Koontz

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
Dean Koontz

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. Du Bois

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana

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

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

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor

It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle