Books Quotes · Page 190

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

— Ahmet Zappa

My life is open book but I dont allow everyone to read it

— Hussein Nishah

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The Book of Job depicted the discovery of the devil in deity.”

— Charlotte Spivack

“it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...”

— Jane Austen

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

— Jane Goldman

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from…

— Salman Rushdie

“Consider me an open book" dev said. "Mi casa es su casa." Dev crinkled his nose and smelled the air. "Err, mi…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was…

— Gene Wilder

When I was growing up, 'Ebony Magazine' was a must read in our household. In those pages I found our news, our…

— Ayanna Pressley

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

— Anonymous

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

— Hugh Dancy

The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

— Ian Plimer

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

— Michael Connelly

“Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music…

— Jodi Meadows

My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where…

— Madeleine L'Engle

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“Well, my dear fellow, if you say so. But who is the Botticelli murderer?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘But you must know by…

— Edmund Crispin

“If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every…

— William H. Gass

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but…

— Ross Kemp

“Just like a constant diet of fast food makes us flabby, so too a constant intake of social media to the neglect…

— Aimee Byrd

“Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of…

— Ray Bradbury

“another book is another dimension. another life full of imagination.”

— Kevin Armando

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith

“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”

— Shannon Celebi

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

— Stephen King

“I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.”

— Tom Stoppard

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.”

— Amit Tiwari

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

— Lynsey Addario

“You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages”

— john j geddes

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

“I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.”

— Aurora Whittet

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

— T. E. Hulme

“There's no reason, to talk about the books I read. But still I do.”

— Morrissey

If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters.

— Damien Cantrell

“This website is really good for listing books.”

— Brodie Cameron