Books Quotes · Page 176

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

— Randy Alcorn

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

— Sloane Crosley

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books

— Richard Baxter

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

— Nicholas G. Carr

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“In literature mere egotism is delightful.”

— Oscar Wilde

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

I treat every reader as if they were a close friend.

— Molly Yeh

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

— Mickey Spillane

“learning to read awoke a touching thirst for knowledge. ‘Send me a list of books published on comets, stars, water, the earth,…

— S.A. Smith

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

— Terry Eagleton

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what…

— Tamora Pierce

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

— Walter Savage Landor

“I'll save you some time...if I didn't rate all my books asa 5 stars, I bloody well wouldn't have written them!!”

— John W. Cassell

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

— Terry Pratchett

“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.”

— Jennifer Niven

“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of…

— Doris Lessing

In a book, you can create a world in your imagination that's as intricate as you want. Even something like 'Angels &…

— Jessie Reyez

In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is…

— Ken Kalfus

“There could be no better time to read THE END OF BLISS, Rhonda Cutler's beautifully researched and heartfelt novel about another of…

— Rhonda Ringler Cutler

I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Our two chairs were drawn up to the fire; a stack of scholarly books beside his and the latest volume of The…

— Jordan L. Hawk

“I go through memory after memory, looking for reassurance that nothing has changed, but it's like flipping through a book of stories…

— Paula Stokes

“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial…

— Marcel Proust

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

— Joss Whedon

Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?

— Jack White

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

— Anonymous

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

My life as an open book , but ur not allowed to read it !

— U Don't Gotta Know

People read me but they don't subscribe.

— Jay London

“businessman’s wife should read and annotate articles for her husband).”

— Leslie Berlin

We must be authors of the history of our age.

— Madeleine Albright

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

— Antoni Porowski

“If you always read books, you'll always be happy.”

— Bruce Feiler

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

— Anonymous

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

— John Milton

“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”

— Nicole Fende

“Life is short and the number of books is appalling.”

— John Cowper Powys