Books Quotes · Page 162

Kiss me a paragraph, and I will reply with a novel.

— Anonymous

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

— Colonel Sanders

“A life without books is like body without a soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“is often a good career move for an author.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

— William Hazlitt

The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

— John Berendt

I don't bother with computers, although I have an electronic reader.

— June Brown

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

— Elie Wiesel

“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.”

— Kellie Elmore

“98: I love you because I would NEVER spend three hours making this book of 100 reasons why I love you for anyone else.”

— L.A. Casey

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves…

— Gao Xingjian

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

— Armistead Maupin

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

— Emily Giffin

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and…

— Richard Llewellyn

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of…

— Donal Logue

“To devise situation where the protagonist is force to tell a lie, a useful figure for the writer is the Devil. Like…

— David Mura

I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a…

— Sarah Dessen

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make…

— Renzo Piano

I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted…

— Tim Kang

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures…

— Kim Hyesoon

“That’s why I’m waiting on my Boaz.” I nodded and smiled. “He’s the epitome of my Mr. Right. I figure, if God…

— Michelle Stimpson

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship…

— Joseph Conrad

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

— Noah Hawley

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

— Kurt Vonnegut

This life, make it simple same as a book, enjoy it as you read it...

— Anonymous

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

— Alice Walker

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

— Michael Winterbottom

I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.

— Lena Dunham

“Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.”

— Susie Derkins

“People read to escape reality. I write to give them realities to escape to.”

— Radcliff Lance

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

— Caroline Gordon

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

“There's nothing like the feel of an old book in your hands.”

— Kathryn Shay

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

— Charles Lamb

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

— Jose Marti

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln