Books Quotes · Page 185

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

— Frances McDormand

“If they let go, let God lift you." Read that again!”

— Dr. Angela L. Hood

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

— Raymond E. Feist

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

— Gertrude Stein

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

— Christopher Moore

I love to both give and receive very old books.

— Augusten Burroughs

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

— Anonymous

My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

— Laura Dern

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years…

— Dana Spiotta

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig

“The cover or jacket protects the book, identifies the author and title, and carries the blurb. The ISBN and bar code enable…

— Giles Clark

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

— Henry David Thoreau

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in…

— Ian Mcewan

“The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There…

— Hassan Blasim

The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith.…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during…

— Jeff Abbott

I'm constantly obsessing about brand. I think of my books in terms of brand. I think of my blog articles in terms…

— Mark Manson

There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the…

— Conan O'Brien

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as…

— N.K. Jemisin

There are a lot of messages in my books which I have specifically targeted for children, based on my own experiences growing…

— Israel Folau

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

— William Shakespeare

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

— Sara Nelson

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

— David Shields

“Among the bound pages - I am set free.”

— Crystal Decker

If you want to understand the Bible, get to know the Author.

— Nikhil Saluja

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

— Cornelia Funke

You can always read a person by what comes out his mouth.

— Rod Wave

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

— Walter J. Ong

Studying means: to text, to eat and to watch TV with an open book neatby.

— Michael Angelo De Leon

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

— Ronald Fisher

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

“Because reality has no authority there. My imagination controls everything.”

— Samantha Young

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

— Anonymous

“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”

— Edward Abbey

“The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

— Emma Donoghue