Books Quotes · Page 101

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.”

— Joshua Caleb

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

— Gilbert Highet

“..."readers were born free and ought to remain free.”

— Azar Nafisi

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

— Kelly Clarkson

My first book was an open letter to my three daughters.

— Carol Burnett

I'm tired of writing exams for marks. I want to start writing books for sell.

— Terry Mark

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

— Brit Marling

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that…

— Robert Munsch

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all…

— Sara Sheridan

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are…

— Kevin O'Leary

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't…

— Susan Straight

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas…

— Yann Martel

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki…

— Sarah Kay

When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they…

— David Sedaris

“One day when I woke up I found him reading my papers. It was as though he were violating my body. Maybe…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows…

— Jenny Lawson

“Brother Luca Pacioli. It took him thirty years to write.” The book is bound in deepest green with a tooled border of…

— Hilary Mantel

The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated,…

— Ella Baker

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes…

— Masiela Lusha

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want…

— Sigrid Nunez

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

— Charlotte Bronte

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

— John Allen Paulos

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

— Strickland Gillilan

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

— Stephen King

I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

— Joe Queenan

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

— David Platt

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.

— Hideo Kojima

You should read a crowd like you read a magazine.

— Ashley McBryde

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

— Dean Koontz

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

— Jean M. Auel

“a freindship without books is like a isnt a freinship at all”

— Gemini Adams

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

— Amanda Hocking

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

— John Flanagan

This book was made possible by the letter “ø.

— Jessica Day George

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

— Douglas Wilson