Quotes of: Books Keyword

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Meg Rosoff

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Molly Ringwald

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

Maggie Stiefvater

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

Maggie Stiefvater

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists. When you see people, you sympathize their existence.

Mustafa SULTAN

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Malcolm X

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

Markus Zusak

Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

Neil Armstrong

When you let Soul drive the bus, life flows more effortlessly. -- From the book, Doing a 360, page 8

Nancy Ash

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Noam Chomsky

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Neil Gaiman

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Neil Gaiman

There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.” “When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?” - Riker

The Next Generation (season 1 epis. 7: Justice)

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

Nicole Krauss

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.

Nathalie M. Llanto

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.

Nella Last

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Clayton Christensen

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly