President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
Conan O'Brien

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

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

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

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

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan Sontag

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.
Mike Myers

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

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

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

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodor Geisel

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

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
Frank McCourt

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
Frank McCourt

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
Frank McCourt

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