Books Quotes · Page 193

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

— Nora Roberts

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

— B. C. Forbes

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”

— Heinrich Heine

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

— Isabel Allende

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

— Richard Peck

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

— Jim Cornette

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

— Angela Lambert

When you think you have no one read this!

— Destiny

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my…

— Evangeline Lilly

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and…

— Dave Eggers

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the…

— Richard Hell

“As the eighteenth- century author Jonathan Swift wrote, you cannot reason someone out of something he has not been reasoned into.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

— Boris Spassky

“You’ll get so tired of Blair Water — you’ll know all the people in it — what they are and can be…

— L.M. Montgomery

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

— Laura Esquivel

“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”

— Shion Miura

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it…

— Sean Bean

I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less…

— Nick Petrie

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come…

— Virginia Woolf

Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy…

— Jennifer Egan

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House…

— A. Scott Berg

“Her home in the hills above Carmel Valley is awash in thousands of books and documents. Among them is the 26-volume Warren…

— Mae Brussell

“Even the word church conjured confused images of the many churches Grace had seen, though she had no idea if these pictures…

— E.C. Diskin

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out…

— Willie Nelson

“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.”

— Christopher Morley

“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

— Alistair Cooke

Each book first begins with a little idea.

— Dick Bruna

“Hey, pretty book, why don’t you lie in my lap awhile?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).”

— J.M. Varner

“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

— Stephen King

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

— Neil Strauss

“Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

There are no limits to life once you learn to acsept yourself.

— Anonymous

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

— Patrick O'Brian

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;

— Charlotte Bronte