Top 1200 Good Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

It's really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into a good book.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.