Books Quotes · Page 1,196

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is…

— Diane Setterfield

“For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species,…

— Carl Sagan

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of…

— Elvis Presley

“The only things you feel are greed, mockery, and occasionally you probably get a hard-on, but I bet it’s not over a…

— Karen Marie Moning

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did…

— David Foster Wallace

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from…

— John McGahern

Chronicle Books is a wonderful book company. I love how everything represents who I am. The Diva Rules! is not an autobiography…

— Michelle Visage

It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for…

— John Gimlette

We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of…

— Steven Furtick

“That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all.…

— Azar Nafisi

“Where did you hide your Mockingbirds?" he asks. "Ornithology," she replies. "You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I…

— Paul Acampora

“By an act of faith the Christian reader today may identify the New Testament, as it has been received, with the entire…

— F.F. Bruce

“He always approached things with big ideas and objectives," Dan Evans said, "Find the best people you can to pursue those goals.…

— Ronald Kessler

“Whitehaven Beach brought me back to my days when a trip to the library was an adventure. The author lives on the…

— Kathy Maisano

Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is…

— Andrew Garfield

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the…

— E. B. White

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing…

— Eudora Welty

“Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry…

— H.L. Stephens

Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a…

— Anonymous

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to…

— Delmore Schwartz

I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our…

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you are under the power of sexual desire, anger and worldly attachment, or a greedy miser in love with your wealth;…

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what…

— Félix J. Palma

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about…

— Julia Glass

All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face…

— Bryan Burrough

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is…

— Don DeLillo

“EVERYONE deserves to be happy. But no one gets there by freaking out or sulking or running. So. Here's a tissue. Clean…

— A.S. King

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for…

— Gaston Bachelard

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline…

— John Grisham

By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about…

— Sasa Stanisic

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt…

— Gabourey Sidibe

“God, the author of language, programmed Adam with language when He created him, as we know they conversed right from the start…

— Ken Ham

“St. Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 B.C. for the Creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis. (It…

— Stephen Hawking

“Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe…

— A.A. Patawaran

I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different…

— Chelsea Handler

God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service. They are the teachers whose names will…

— Mel Lawrenz

The thing about Luke Cage that makes him different is - on the surface is he's a hero for hire; Luke Cage…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are…

— John Updike