Books Quotes · Page 116

“If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.”

— Stephen Colbert

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

— Jerry Della Femina

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

— Dave Ulrich

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

— Anonymous

“A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”

— CJ Heck

This Life is More than Just a read through.

— Anthony Kiedis

No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.

— Proverb

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

— Salvador de Madariaga

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still…

— Hugo Chavez

I did not grow up around films. So, I would say books have been my major influence.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes…

— James Altucher

“The author respectfully dedicates this book to everyone who is almost as smart as they think they are.”

— Matthew Stover

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the…

— Christopher Darden

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

— Stephen Hawking

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

— James Nicoll

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not…

— Lily Tomlin

“Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey’s Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the…

— Philip Pullman

Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful…

— Patti Smith

“Rita Emmett, the author of The Procrastinator’s Handbook, summed this up well in what she labeled Emmett’s law: “The dread of doing…

— Chris Bailey

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make…

— Georges Cuvier

“You can't photograph the hugest mysteries of the universe that really have nothing to do with what shows up before your eyes,…

— Carol Plum-Ucci

If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is…

— T.C. Boyle

A guy was trying to get a girl's attention. He decided to ask her to help him with his homework. She agreed.…

— Anonymous

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me,…

— Miranda July

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

— Theodore Parker

“The best boyfriends are the ones in books.”

— Leah Blundell

“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”

— Heywood Broun

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

— John Updike

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

— Christian Bauman

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

— Jena Malone

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

— Peter James

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

— Franz Kafka

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture.

— Mike Colter

“our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry - women of color”

— Rupi Kaur

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

— Katelyn Ohashi

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

— Deb Caletti

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

— Bruce Feiler

My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

— Camilla Lackberg