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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
— Rudy Rucker
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
— David Attenborough
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
— William, Saroyan
The treasures of life is hidden in a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
— Charles Darwin
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
— Nicholas G. Carr
A book is a dream you hold in your hands.
— Neil Gaiman
Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made.
— Deyth Banger
I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.
— Winston Churchill
There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way
— Robert Solow
This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.
— Jacob Bacharach
For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.
— Christopher Morley
It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.
— Anne McCaffrey
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
— Chris Van Allsburg
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
— Abraham Pais
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
— Adrian McKinty
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
— Peter Ackroyd
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.
— L.M. Montgomery
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.
— Jen Golembiewski
Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.
— Joe Hill
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
— Jessica Brockmole
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
— Andrea Seigel
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.
— George R R Martin
What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it.
— William Golding
A human being writes the book, but what writes for him or her is more spirit than physical being, and that spirit lives only in solitude.
— Elizabeth Berg
But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories.
— Jack Gantos
I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.
— Marilynne Robinson
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?
— Will Schwalbe
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
— Mary Higgins Clark
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
— Herman Melville
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song - be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
— Laurence Sterne
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
— Alice Hoffman
You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.
— Daniel Handler
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
— Ken Follett
Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.
— Nicholas Sparks
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
— Pete Hamill
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
— Eliza Acton
Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.
— Jonathan Heatt
A writer is always observant, of course ... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.
— Carol Higgins Clark
In the same way once a book is printed and published it ceases to be the property of theauthor; he commits it to the care of other people; — Virginia Woolf
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess
— Alan Bennett
You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
— Bill Hicks
I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."
— Franz Drameh
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.
— Julia Glass
Maybe you're not such a monster, Mr Zombie. I mean, anyone who appreciates a good beer is at least halfway okay in my book.
— Isaac Marion
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
— William Landay
Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
— B.R. Myers
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
— Brendan Behan
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
— Orhan Pamuk
People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.
— Andy Andrews
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
— Marcia Gay Harden
A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.
— John A. Buehrens
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.
— Jay Neugeboren
There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind.
— Roger Waters
I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
— David Sedaris
I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite.
— Santa Montefiore
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
— Erica Jong
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
— Sally Schneider
Every book is a time machine, a flying carpet, a passport to the most powerful nation in the world....... your imagi-nation!
— Mike Thaler
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
— Rafael Sabatini
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
— Jean Rhys
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.
— Richard Scarry
A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success;
— Daniel Kahneman
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
— Francis Lockier
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.
— Fran Lebowitz
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.
— Anatole Broyard
I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.
— William Finnegan
Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart
— Carmela Dutra
A good book appeals to what is best in us....
— Scott Russell Sanders