Book Quotes

"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too"

Mark Millar, Writer

"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties"

Mark Millar, Writer

"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence"

Mark Millar, Writer

"However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers"

Mark Millar, Writer

"Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company"

Mark Millar, Writer

"At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists"

Mark Millar, Writer

"It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"I think every young cook wants to write a book"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"Exclusive will not be published in book format"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself"

Mark Millar, Writer

"You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too"

Tom Felton, Actor

"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them"

Horace Mann, Educator

"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books"

William Cowper, Poet

"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind"

Oswald Chambers, Theologian

"A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one"

Oswald Chambers, Theologian

"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me"

Martin Buber, Philosopher

"I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good"

Magnus Carlsen

"I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess"

Magnus Carlsen

"I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class"

Will Smith, Actor

"The book is a piece of architecture. The text forms the columns; the pages are the walls"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories"

Eric Brown, Writer

"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since"

John Grisham, Writer

"I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them"

John Grisham, Writer

"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

"The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself"

Peter Sotos, Writer

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