Books Quotes · Page 155

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“The man waxed his mustache. In Sebastian's book, that was never a good sign.”

— Stephen Gallagher

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

— Thomas Jefferson

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

— Jerry Seinfeld

Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.

— Nachman of Breslov

“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

— Mike Bryan

“When I open a book, I enter a world that no one can take me away from.”

— Anonymous

I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.

— Grace Ogot

A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.

— Stephen C Johnson

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! I almost bounced clear outta the book! Some bouncin', huh? [after he tries to jump out of the book while climbing…

— Tigger

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to…

— Richard Adams

“The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.”

— Anthony Powell

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write…

— Max Lucado

Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age,…

— Don Coscarelli

For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.

— Yvonne Orji

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is.…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't…

— Tess Gerritsen

“In a world of watered-down bestsellers and formula novels, Hitching to Nirvana eases back just enough to show the blade which cuts…

— CAConrad

You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's…

— Theodore Austin-Sparks

Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the…

— Toni Blake

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger,…

— William Joyce

As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you…

— Jonathan Gold

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us

— Alain de Lille

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

— B. F. Skinner

“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”

— Kurt Cobain

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

— Heather Brooke

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”

— Don DeLillo

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.

— Ellen Glasgow

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“On that day they will be submissive...”

— Compton Gage

Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!

— Twiggy

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

— LL Cool J

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

— Ian Mcewan

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

— Pam Shriver

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

— Cornelia Funke

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

— Thomas A. Edison