Books Quotes · Page 172

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

“I am a character in someone's book whose end has not yet been written”

— MBarreto Condado

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

— Stephane Mallarme

If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible.

— LeCrae

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

— John Grisham

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

“You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.”

— Sydney Fauser

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

— Jane Smiley

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own…

— Ashwin Sanghi

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

— Tom Paulin

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer

“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!”

— William Styron

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word,…

— Michel Faber

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

— Henry David Thoreau

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

— Will Self

“The Virgin Mary is called the [Greek words] (the "book of the Word of life") by the Greek Church. The book of…

— Erasmo Leiva Merikakis

“I don’t just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold…

— Lyn Gardner

“The lesson I have learned is that a failure to cultivate the imagination leads to an unintended neglect of the imaginative literature…

— Tony Reinke

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a…

— Sydney J. Harris

When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I…

— Matt Taibbi

In America, and no doubt elsewhere, we have such a tendency toward the segregation of cultural products. This is a black book,…

— Ayana Mathis

For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences.…

— Dee Rees

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a…

— Kenneth Oppel

If you don't like my book, write your own.

— Rita Mae Brown

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

— John Grisham

“Books are for all; or Every reader his book/”

— Ranganatan

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

Life without a taste of irrational, of crazy, is a boring book.

— Mariana Fulger

“She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.”

— Anonymous

I believe all literature started as gossip.

— Rita Mae Brown

I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.

— Mary Wiseman

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

— Tom Shadyac

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

— Anonymous

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

“Good friends, good books and ability to sleep peacefully is good life.”

— Nitya Prakash

I could write several books about my life.

— Bob Christo

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

— Miranda July