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If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look.
— Vladimir Nabokov
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.
— William Goldman
In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.
— Claire Bloom
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
— Charles James
The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.
— Benjamin L. Corey
No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN.
— Carew Papritz
The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance.
— Hugh Nibley
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.
— Jonathan Kozol
I might as well doubt my own existence as to doubt the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon or the divine calling of Joseph Smith.
— Richard Lloyd Anderson
Throw away the rule book and create your own.
— Sandra Bellamy
Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards.
— Patti Smith
One 'Magic Formula' is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY.
— Shay Dawkins
Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.
— Margaret Bourke-White
Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.
— Cassandra Clare
A book brings its own history to the reader.
— Alberto Manguel
Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
— Tae Yun Kim
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
— Alan Dershowitz
I love the way that each book - any book - is its own journey. You open it, and off you go ... .
— Sharon Creech
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
— Chris Van Allsburg
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
— Arthur Smith
I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).
— Christopher Paolini
For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period. — Anurag Shourie
I own every book Stephen King has ever written.""That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface? — Caroline Kepnes
I don't believe in God or miracles, I believe in the human heart and our own strength to overcome and survive. ~Shannon~
— A. Giannoccaro
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.
— Daniel Kahneman
Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal challenges.
— Micheline Aharonian Marcom
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
— Maureen Corrigan
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead ... seek God within your own soul.
— John Smith
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
— Iain Sinclair
We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book.
— Khaled Hosseini
I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.
— Michelle Paver
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
— Francis Collins
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.
— Swami Vivekananda
Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.
— Melody Moezzi
Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.
— Martin Edwards
The most difficult book you will ever read is your own heart.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our mind has a mind of its own.
— Lauren Handel Zander
If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?
— Lars Iyer
Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own
— Holly Smale
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
— Ignazio Silone
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
— Jonathan Heatt
Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
— Johnny Rich
Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
— Barbara Rosenblat
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
— Elizabeth Kostova
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.
— Rebecca Mead
I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.
— Steven Heighton
some debts a man keeps in his own ledger book, sir, even if the other fellow doesn't
— J.A. Sutherland
A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.
— Craig Mercier
The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.
— Ashley Beale
I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
— Lenny Kravitz
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
— Alain De Botton
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
— Saul Alinsky
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
— Edward Abbey
Life is its own occasion; it does not need a reason to celebrate itself.
— Heather K. O'Hara
I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.
— Carew Papritz
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
— Susan Minot
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.
— Henny Youngman
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
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.
— Doris Lessing
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
— Hosea Ballou
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
— Moon Unit Zappa
The fulfillment of God's promises can never be rushed. They will happen in their own time--even the success of a book.
— Miranda A. Uyeh
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
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
— Dave Eggers
Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
— John Baxter
