Books Quotes · Page 168

I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.

— Echo Bodine

I grew up reading a lot on literature and all of that.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

— Harold S. Kushner

“I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson”

— Thomas Jefferson

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

— Douglas Rushkoff

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

— Anonymous

“I'm not an aspiring writer; I'm a writer aspiring to be read.”

— D.L. Marriott

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

— Khaled Hosseini

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

— Wally Lamb

“I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

— Nella Larsen

my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

— Mitch Albom

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big…

— Padgett Powell

Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn…

— Ezra Pound

“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like…

— Hisham Matar

“The only way to really know whether or not you will like a book, is to read it.”

— John Campedelli

“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of…

— Steven Millhauser

“The other key concept I shall refer to freely all through this book is that of a polynomial. The etymology of this…

— Anonymous

I believe if you can have an open dialogue about anything, whether it's a book or a movie or TV show, it's…

— Kelly Marie Tran

“a book by David K. Reynolds, who had, in the early 1980s, come up with a system he called Constructive Living, a…

— Will Schwalbe

All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep…

— Stan Lee

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with…

— Lance Armstrong

In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang,…

— Darren Aronofsky

'Bosch' itself - it has a huge fanbase already from the Michael Connelly books, so it was definitely intriguing because you know…

— Annie Wersching

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

— Anonymous

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

— Siri Hustvedt

It's never a good thing when an opponent has a solid read on you pre-flop.

— Daniel Negreanu

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

— Bertolt Brecht

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

I came, I read this atrilce, I conquered.

— Patience

I can't support something I haven't read.

— Michael Capuano

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

— Neil Warnock

“She was always reading, and she read very good books.”

— J.D. Salinger

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

— Don DeLillo

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

— Anais Nin

The comic book world is a tough business.

— Shia LaBeouf

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

— Frederick Busch

“what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!”

— Thoreau Henry David

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.

— Mark Twain