Top 1200 Book Lover Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still feisty and kicking. She's 92. I saw her last night and she published a book at 90. It's a wonderful book called "You Caught Me Kissing" and it's basically love-poems that she wrote for my dad. It's more than that, it's a wonderful book.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.

I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Dance has been my lover, my doctor. I know I have my health because of this.

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I've always been a great lover of Barcelona and the structure of the club.

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned.

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who is a spectacular talent. That book is a work of art.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

I'm a Virgo, so I'm a super hard lover. I fall in love so quickly!

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each month. For practical reasons, that didn't work out.

The dream book is always the next book.

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.