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What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1 — Lewis Carroll
Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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 simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
— Angela Carter
Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.
— Bernie Sanders
The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.
— Jay Ryan
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
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
— Siri Hustvedt
What an astonishing thing a book is.
— Carl Sagan
Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error..
— Roseanne Barr
Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.
— Philip Gerard
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
— Sarah Dessen
What is a book for if not to be read?
— Rachel R. Smith
What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about.
— Viraj J. Mahajan
- The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.
— Marlon James
What is indispensable to inspiration? ... sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.
— George Orwell
I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.
— Haruki Murakami
Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is ...
— Carew Papritz
This is what made a book great, she thought, that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it.
— Jeanne Birdsall
It's like reading a good book. The kind where you don't want to skip pages to see what happens at the end. Each moment is a story in itself.
— Renee Carlino
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
— George MacDonald
And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?
— Gustave Flaubert
What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in awhile.
— J.D. Salinger
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.
— John Gregory Dunne
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?
— Donald Miller
I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it.
— Clifton Cameron
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
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
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.
— Betsy Lerner
What is a gentleman, anyway?He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper. — F Scott Fitzgerald
It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.
— Margaret Atwood
A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
— Russell Smith
What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.
— Nicholas G. Carr
Normally, what you're envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels ... almost nonexistent things.
— James Salter
David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.
— Malcolm Gladwell
It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is.
— David Conger
What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.
— Tilda Swinton
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
— William S. Burroughs
The book is a beautifully broken window with an obstructed view of what is killing us, and something is definitely killing us.
— Erika Swyler
A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
Something is very wrong. What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker,
— Erika Swyler
A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
— Emily Rodda
My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
— Barbara Park
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.
— Flannery O'Connor
That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count.
— Terry Pratchett
What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
— Christopher Nolan
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
— Robert B. Parker
If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?
— Lars Iyer
Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart
— Carmela Dutra
You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.
— Carew Papritz
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
— Jeanette Winterson
This is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes we take what we value for granted. There
— Ray Bradbury
Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book
— Colleen Hoover
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
— Mark Epstein
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
— Kimberly Willis Holt
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
— Sam Brownback
A good book appeals to what is best in us....
— Scott Russell Sanders