Book Quotes

"I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published"

Sigrid Undset, Novelist

"There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"Books had instant replay long before televised sports"

Bern Williams

"If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books"

Alan King, Comedian

"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot"

Jackie Collins, Author

"Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books"

Jackie Collins, Author

"All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives"

Rachel Zoe, Designer

"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat"

Robert Graves, Novelist

"I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books"

Bess Truman, First Lady

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought"

Pierre Bayle, Philosopher

"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought"

Pierre Bayle, Philosopher

"I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race"

Viola Davis, Actress

"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds"

Kit Carson, Explorer

"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

"By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films"

Iain Banks, Writer

"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book"

Iain Banks, Writer

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please"

Robert Chambers, Writer

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves"

Gilbert Highet, Writer

"In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles"

Ronald Fisher, Mathematician

"A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end"

Anthony Holden, Journalist

"Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it"

Jeff Foxworthy, Comedian

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