Books Quotes · Page 108

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

— Ben Okri

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“i love mermaids i cant live without books about them.”

— Tera Lynn Childs

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

— Pete Rose

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

— Charlaine Harris

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

— Samuel Johnson

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

— Meg Wolitzer

“In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense! -Judge Dredd”

— John Wagner

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

— Gavin Rossdale

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

— Abi Morgan

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

— Veronica Roth

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout…

— James Joyce

Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of…

— Ian Hacking

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had…

— Terry Pratchett

“She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just…

— Pete Hamill

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you…

— P. L. Travers

“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“[Bill] Gates said he connected with [Eddy] Izzard even though it would appear they have nothing in common — but that might…

— Bill Gates

“To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man.…

— G.K. Chesterton

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,…

— Angela Carter

“It is amazing just how many books in the library have words written in them!?”

— Jon Hodge

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read.”

— self

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

— Rob Lowe

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

— Mark Twain

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

— Anonymous

“We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.”

— Steve Maraboli

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

— Mukul Dev

“Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

— Robin Sharma

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

— Anonymous

“If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.”

— Richard J. Foster

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

— Earl Nightingale

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

— Diana Vreeland

“If I wrote an autobiography, I'd have to sue the author for defamation...”

— Seeley James

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

— Stellan Skarsgard