Books Quotes · Page 179

“Books are reason to get up in the morning.”

— Nina Sankovitch

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

— George Santayana

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant

I stand by whatever I read from Univision.

— Donald Trump

“Here we have bookish dreams, a heart unhinged by theories.”

— Dostoyevsky

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

— Richard K. Morgan

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

— Madame de Stael

“Reading, she says, is for the underemployed.”

— Isabel Waidner

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

— Jean Rhys

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,…

— Edward Abbey

Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves - they're not pure pastiche.

— Torrey Peters

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a…

— Lynn Coady

“i love the book called the princess plot and its a good book because its about how its mysterys from other peeps...”

— Kristen Boie

In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com…

— Jon Meacham

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat…

— Rumer Godden

“(T)he essential thing is to keep in mind all the strata that go to make up the book. Archaic wisdom from the…

— Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

I do not believe I should live by a book but by my heart cause no matter what I do itll be…

— Timothy Ashmore

“O send thy Spirit, Lord, now unto me, That he may touch mine eyes, and make me see: Show me the truth…

— Wayne A. Grudem

Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread…

— Kevin Ashton

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater.…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's…

— Lucy Alibar

“I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

— Anonymous

Your life is a book; make it a bestseller.

— Shanon Grey

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

— Norman Mailer

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

— Terry Pratchett

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

— Virginia Woolf

I do not have much time for relaxation, but when I can, I like to read.

— Claudio Ranieri

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

— Groucho Marx

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

— Mark Leibovich

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

— Eniola Aluko

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

— J. K. Rowling

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.

— Robert Gottlieb

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

— Milan Kundera

“If I am too busy to read The Bible ... am I too busy?”

— Anonymous

“Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.”

— Carew Papritz

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise