Books Quotes · Page 123

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

— George Ade

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

— Lawrence Durrell

“Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.”

— Stephen King

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

— Anonymous

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

— Bindi Irwin

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

— Jeanette Winterson

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'

— Joe R. Lansdale

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at…

— Norman Mailer

“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.”

— Anonymous

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very…

— Michael Ondaatje

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

— Timothy Keller

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private.…

— Dyan Cannon

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn…

— John Donne

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

— John Lahr

“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped…

— Scott McClanahan

“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was…

— Katie Piper

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection…

— Julianna Baggott

I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay…

— Edmund White

“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because…

— Jose Saramago

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.

— Nelson DeMille

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

— Leonard Cohen

Move on.Its a chapter in the past.But Don't close the book.Just turn the page

— Anonymous

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

— Samuel Johnson

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

— Nicholas Lore

I read about myself in the papers all the time.

— Abhay Deol

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

— Andy Williams

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

— Mark Skousen

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

— Markus Zusak

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

— Anonymous

Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?

— Michelle Cliff

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

— Patti Smith

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

“Books are written little by little...as the cat eats the fish.”

— Lynda K. Scott

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

— Ruskin Bond