Books Quotes · Page 129

“Live Like a Novel, we can't guess what will happens on next page.”

— Noname

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

— John Gay

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

— Dave Eggers

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

— Mary Cantwell

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

— Victoria Justice

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

— Susan Straight

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

— Natalie Dormer

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a…

— Ian Rankin

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach…

— William Ellery Channing

“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and…

— Rudyard Kipling

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me…

— Donna Leon

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two…

— E. M. Forster

“This is a book unlike any other on Barack Obama. It is not the typical effusive book of apostolic praise, but neither…

— Dinesh D'Souza

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people…

— Virginia Woolf

“partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all…

— Nick Hornby

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start…

— Antonia Fraser

“On the day of the party I walked down to Covent Garden at lunchtime to buy a dress, and on my way…

— Helen DeWitt

“[What is honor]—I suspect that if, after reading this book, you were to go and ask the question of your friends and…

— Jack Whyte

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the…

— Brian Helgeland

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

— Anne Waldman

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

— Caspar Weinberger

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

“Don't let anything get in the way of reading a good book”

— Abby Noland

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

— Alberto Manguel

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— Anonymous

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

— Charles Spurgeon

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,

— Harold Bloom

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

— Anonymous

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

— George R. R. Martin

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

— Megan Abbott

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk