Books Quotes · Page 175

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

“I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.”

— Owl City

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

— Penelope Lively

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

— Alfonso Cuaron

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

“Khalil, I'll never forget. I'll never give up. I'll never be quiet. I promise.”

— Angie Thomas

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

— David Harsanyi

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or…

— Meg Cabot

“Before bed I do a bit of light reading. I’m reading a 50-pound book on midgets.”

— Jarod Kintz

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

— Matt Mullenweg

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to…

— Noma Bar

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

— Samuel Johnson

“Carter thought the Universe was a lot like God, except that the Universe didn't have a book telling you how to be…

— Marshall Thornton

“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and…

— Randy Ingermanson

I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative…

— Francisco Goldman

“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .…

— Milan Kundera

I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book…

— Peter Jackson

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next…

— Milton Friedman

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes you can love a book not so much because of what it's…

— Sarah Combs

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader…

— Barbara Tuchman

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

— Evelyn Waugh

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

— Tobias Smollett

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

— Gail Tsukiyama

One little word thats all it took, to change my life to a different book

— Aly Johnson

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

— D. H. Lawrence

Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.

— Frank Peretti

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

— Paracelsus

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

“Biggest lie ever: 'I'm only going to buy one book...”

— Anonymous

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

— Anonymous

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

— Aisha Tyler

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

— Morris Chestnut

Well, I just love to read books. I read a lot.

— Shriya Saran