I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
Tim Vine

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Nora Ephron

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Simon Travaglia

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
Aleister Crowley

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman Melville

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir Nabokov

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
Bell Hooks

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James M. Barrie

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

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

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
Mortimer Adler

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer Adler

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
Lord Acton

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
John Milton