Books Quotes · Page 195

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

— Lois Lowry

I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.

— Alexandra Daddario

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

— Ernie J Zelinski

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Books are the door of escape from the forest.

— E. B. White

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

— Rudyard Kipling

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better…

— Ethel Merman

I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how…

— Rachel Zoe

It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.

— John Ashbery

In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do…

— Jimmy Fallon

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books…

— John Steinbeck

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing…

— Ayana Mathis

“A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.”

— Lauren Hammond

Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one…

— Paul Auster

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever…

— Sarah MacLean

“Not if you pay attention. I mean, you're sending all the right signals - no earrings, heels under two inches, your hair…

— Will Smith

“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to…

— Hermann Hesse

“Of course women are sexual objects; so are men. Even while I was hugging that book of feminist rhetoric to my chest,…

— Siri Hustvedt

I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside…

— Barbara Hamby

“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my…

— Kate Forsyth

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort…

— Michael Ian Black

When all is dead, the words will be read.

— Jeremy Limn

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

— Ernie Harwell

“Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.”

— Lisa Cach

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

— George Sand

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“taken from Chip and Dan Heath’s great book, Stick.”

— Anonymous

“The truth is, my friend, you never know where a book will take you.”

— M. Scott Snelten

“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...”

— Jane Austen

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

— Marla Frazee

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

— Lleyton Hewitt

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

— Gary Paulsen

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

— Lisa Gardner

God is not the author of confusion but is the author of peace.

— Quentin L. Cook

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

— Leslie Charteris