Books Quotes · Page 197

“A good book can make you laugh but only a great book can make you cry”

— Rockerlulu

Women with clean houses do not have finished books.

— Joy Held

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

I never really separated painting and literature.

— Cy Twombly

No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

— Charlie Munger

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

— Voltaire

In the book of life,the answers aren't at the back

— Asif

“To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.”

— Anonymous

Sundays are great for a lie in, a read of the papers, a potter around at home and then brunch, which is…

— Rachel Khoo

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

— Dick Bruna

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the…

— Zadie Smith

“then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the…

— Walter Isaacson

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book…

— Vinny Guadagnino

“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction…

— Charles Van Doren

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more…

— Joel Osteen

I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it…

— George Soros

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing…

— Orhan Pamuk

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be…

— Julia Glass

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I…

— Stephen King

“No burglar wastes his time burgling authors.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians.”

— Paul J. Silvia

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder

“Pick a shelf and I'll read all about you.”

— Aphrile

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— Bookmarking

“Just because it's a novel--can't it also be different?”

— John Deaton

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

— Anonymous

The better the book the more room for the reader.

— Holbrook Jackson

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

— Alison Lurie

Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.

— R. F. Delderfield

“great book stands the test of time unlike my good self….”

— Douglas Adams

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read”

— Harper Lee

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

— Matthew Lesko

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

— Gail Godwin