Books Quotes · Page 126

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book

— Courtney Love

As always, one of her books was next to her.

— Markus Zusak

Books and minds only work when they're open.

— James Dewar

“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.”

— Martin Booth

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

— John Cheever

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

— Mark Twain

“Let every reader do as his conscience bids him.”

— Hermann Hesse

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were…

— Quentin Bell

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

— Martha Ronk

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you…

— Hilary Mantel

“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on…

— Albert Camus

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

— Craig Thompson

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

— Frank Peretti

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

— Jami Attenberg

When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there's an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I've got…

— Bernard von NotHaus

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only…

— Seth Godin

I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the…

— Tom Peters

“There is no other experience more empowering and undying than the experience of uniting unconditionally with the Conscience of God. From the…

— Rohan and Mohan Perera (World of Ro and Mo

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.…

— Danielle Harlan

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is…

— Charles Stross

“idea of this book years before I did. She was curious about the music I discovered, and able to translate my runaway…

— Tom Moon

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of…

— Sorin Cerin

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

— Paul McCartney

“It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover.”

— Chloe Neill

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

— Eugene Fitch Ware

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

— George Pelecanos

“Perhaps I have a strange affinity for old books.”

— Renee Ahdieh

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ― Margaret Fuller”

— Margaret Fuller

“He was a mildly successful author, according to his wife.”

— James Daniello Jr

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

— Joseph Heller

“These fragments of book mean that I work in ruins.”

— Clarice Lispector

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people

— Andre Maurois

“A novel is an impression, not an argument.”

— Thomas Hardy

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

I read almost everything that comes my way.

— Ravi Subramanian

In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

— Alix Kates Shulman

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

— Aneurin Bevan