Books Quotes · Page 107

“I need to experience books, not just read them.”

— Lauren Morrill

“Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Who needs electronics when you have books?”

— Young-Joon Choi

“There's a book in you that only you can write.”

— Chris Baty

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

You don't read scripture, scripture reads you.

— Mike Glenn

“Sure. But if the book sucks, we’re re-evaluating the friendship.”

— Colleen Hoover

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

— Charles Bukowski

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

— Mohsin Hamid

“A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.”

— Anonymous

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story…

— Jay Asher

“Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.”

— Jack London

When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance…

— Mike Flanagan

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our…

— John Larroquette

“I read trash. Empty cereal boxes, empty shampoo bottles, the bottoms of empty Kleenex boxes, and occasionally even a mystical self-help book.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at…

— Sarah Jio

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's…

— Augusten Burroughs

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of…

— Paul Allen

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first…

— Rick Moody

When a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you're supposed to have a 'hook,' an excuse,…

— Ross Douthat

I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional…

— Thomas Merton

That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A…

— Julie Anne Peters

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

— Nicholas Sparks

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

— Fernando Pessoa

If you Despise of the book dont Dispose of the book

— Kimberly Joina

“Like any author worth a shit - she parted with a piece of her soul.”

— C.J. Roberts

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

— Gregory Maguire

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

— Jimmy Fallon

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

— Tom Helm

“You know what? Forget the warning. Read the book. Go insane. See if I care.”

— Jonathan L. Howard

In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

— Ben Dolnick

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

— Iris Chang

“A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”

— J. A. Meyer

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”

— J.R. Rim

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned.

— Ruskin Bond

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

— Ian Mckellen

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

— Craig Ferguson