Book Quotes - page 6

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. (Steven Wright)
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. View quote
Edward Said
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. View quote
John le Carré
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. View quote
Thom Gunn
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. View quote
Nora Ephron
A book is the only immortality. View quote
Rufus Choate
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. View quote
Anthony Burgess
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. View quote
P. L. Travers
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. View quote
Nora Roberts
There is no friend as loyal as a book. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. (Ernest Hemingway)
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. View quote
Angela Carter
A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
Everything in this book may be wrong. The Savior's Manual. View quote
Richard Bach
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. View quote
Roald Dahl
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. View quote
Jonathan Davis
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. (Dean Koontz)
This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road. View quote
Norman Angell
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. View quote
Julian Barnes
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. View quote
Roberto Bolaño