Book Quotes - page 3

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? (Dale Carnegie)
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. View quote
Angela Carter
A good book should leave you.... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. View quote
William Styron
Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. View quote
Leon Uris
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements. View quote
Aravind Adiga
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. View quote
Mortimer Adler
Making a book is a craft, as is making a clock it takes more than wit to become an author. (Jean de La Bruyère)
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Woe be to him who reads but one book. View quote
George Herbert
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. View quote
Mickey Spillane
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. View quote
Mickey Spillane
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. View quote
Agatha Christie
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. View quote
Warren G. Harding
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. View quote
Richard Brautigan
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. (Yoshida Kenkō)
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. View quote
John Steinbeck
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. View quote
Jerome