Top 1200 Book Lover Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There was never a moment in my life that I remember not being a crazy animal lover!'

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate things, when you're being constantly bombarded with it, but you have to embrace it.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

I'm writing a book, and there's not even space for a desk in our home. So I spent my hard-earned book money and rented the small apartment downstairs from us.

When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

If the husband is always the prime suspect, the lover must be second in line.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.

Though I love you like a brother, I would rather be your lover.

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.

There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.

I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book.

If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said, "Look at this," and I thought the book was outstanding. I was like, "Can I do this?"

I'm a die-hard lover of high-waisted skirts with crop tops.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.