Books Quotes · Page 180

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)”

— Marion Dane Bauer

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

— James Schuyler

I've been called every name in the book.

— Ryan Fitzpatrick

It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book.

— Brad Bird

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

— Tracy Morgan

“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie”

— Anita Silvey

“Hidden Sight Book 1 Beyond Sight Book 2  Armor of Magic Series  Sacred Light Book 1 Rising Light Book 2 Edge of…

— Simone Pond

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".”

— Andrew Roberts

“She tells me she’s a certified smeller of books and that that is probably her best quality. “So It Goes.” is tattooed…

— Matthew Norman

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and…

— Roxane Gay

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

— Ronald Knox

A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been…

— Jonathan Ames

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook…

— Virginia Woolf

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“...Time had seemed infinite when she still had many years and decades ahead of her. A book waiting to be written: as…

— Nina George

“What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Both Ararat and Cudi are in the basic region of where the Urartu lived, but whereas Ararat is referred to in some…

— Ken Ham

There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing…

— Conor Oberst

“As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as…

— Italo Calvino

“One of the appalling aberrations of the German officer corps from this point on rose out of this conflict of “honor”—a word…

— William L. Shirer

“There must have been hundreds of books”

— Paige McKenzie

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

They defy gravity, as good books should.

— David Levithan

Im tatted from my face to my foot so my body reads like a good book

— Nipsey Hussle

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

— Robert Graves

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

— Mark Twain

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

— LeBron James

The more you read, the better you get at it.

— James Patterson

“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.”

— Ronald E. Yates

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

— Terry Pratchett

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

— Jon Stewart

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

“Tweets and text messages killed the long novel.”

— Andrew Barger

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins