Books Quotes · Page 136

I'm writing a novel about a scallywag who is a bit like me.

— Leo Sayer

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

— Elizabeth Bowen

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

— John Ortberg

“This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.”

— Megan Crewe

Literature is the immortality of speech.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.”

— Linda Grant

“When I was a girl the books I read were by men. ”

— Sharon Doubiago

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

— Salman Rushdie

This life is an secret book,which time, what will happen no one knows and no one can predict but only on can…

— Dolpalimala

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

— Katharine Weber

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I…

— Kami Garcia

“Elaine: They're good people. They do good things, they READ. Jerry: I READ. Elaine: Books, Jerry. Jerry: Oh. Big deal.”

— Seinfeld

In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem…

— Pamela Druckerman

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

— Thomas A. Edison

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

— Richard de Bury

I admired Mary's work very much. From the time someone gave me 'The Liars' Club,' I immediately went into a world where…

— Rodney Crowell

“When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly…

— LaQuita Cameron

“The bad news is most of my books are ebooks and aren't for sale in brick-and-mortar bookstores. The good news is that…

— Jarod Kintz

Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with…

— Michael Collier

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the…

— James Nicoll

We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation…

— Joe Gebbia

On a trip to Cabo San Lucas, I was obsessed with Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History.' We were staying at the Esperanza…

— Ioan Gruffudd

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How…

— Kate Atkinson

If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

— Rene Descartes

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

— Jeanne Moreau

“He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.”

— Martin Edwards

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

— Ann Rule

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

— David Sedaris

“I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books”

— Christina Tetreault

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

— Diane Setterfield

“Just ’cause a book don’t have a title, don’t mean it don’t have a name.”

— Kami Garcia

“Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

— Thomas Perry

I couldn't believe it when Penguin offered me the chance to publish a book.

— Brooklyn Beckham

“A man can be rich as long as he reads.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a tell-all book about where I came from, as well as a workout video.

— Michael Sorrentino

“I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can”

— Marlowe Sr

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita