Books Quotes · Page 137

“Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.”

— Buffy Andrews

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

— Samuel Johnson

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

— Ellen Kushner

I don't trust books. They're all fact and no heart.

— Stephen Colbert

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

— Anonymous

Good books enlighten the mind, bad books corrupt the soul.

— Aisha

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

— Robert Walpole

“What makes a book memorable is the message it etched in the readers’ minds.”

— Tista Ray

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and…

— Michael Rosen

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

— Anne Rice

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't…

— Alan Arkin

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

— Roddy Doyle

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a…

— Bill Bailey

It's not that I studied everything in books, I just learned things from my real life experiences. An experience; an asset for…

— Jessel Jane Zozobrado

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant,…

— Rene Redzepi

“I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I…

— Bella Andre

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,…

— Miranda July

I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know…

— W. G. Sebald

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around…

— Corey Taylor

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know…

— Alice Mattison

I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."…

— Natalie Goldberg

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

— Orson Scott Card

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

— William Godwin

“Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.”

— Timothy Snyder

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

— J. K. Rowling

“I'm all about good times, great books and even better sex.”

— Anonymous

“Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?”

— Ronald Frame

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Literature is what intelligent people have instead of dope.”

— Patrick Hemingway

I was sent away, and I never really found my way back home.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

— Laurie R. King

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

— Rita Mae Brown

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

Every person is a book, each year a chapter,

— Mark Twain

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

— Kate DiCamillo