Books Quotes · Page 200

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

— Thomas de Quincey

It's a very good historical book about history.

— Dan Quayle

“Your letters became harder to read and you became a fantasy.”

— Randolph Randy Camp

“Your calling is in what you read, think and talk about”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The more possessions, the more aggravation. Jewish prayer book.”

— Jewish religion

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan…

— Miranda Raison

“Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear Are the most choice companions we have here.”

— William Mather

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

— Judith Krantz

A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Oh yeah, 100%, I've been an open book. Even my whole career, I've kind of been like an open book.

— Ricochet

I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature…

— Barry Barish

“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp…

— James W. Sire

I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I…

— Elif Batuman

“FROM ELEANOR GILLON I finished Racing with the Rain this morning and WOW, what a great book. It kept me wondering what…

— Eleanor Gillon

“Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. That’s bad enough. The Book of Shhh…

— Lauren Oliver

“[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues…

— James Morrow

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that…

— Nick Cave

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and…

— John Pilger

“It's a good thing to read a lot. It's a good thing to write a lot. The best thing to do is…

— Michael Grant

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

— Ann Dowd

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

— Steven Wright

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

— Jess Row

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

“There are never enough books to be satisfied with”

— I believe Me

Where am I when I am involved in a book?

— Sven Birkerts

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

— Howard Lutnick

“I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.”

— Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

— Nick McDonell

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

— Bethenny Frankel

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

— Cyril Connolly

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

— Graham Swift

“There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it. . .”

— Mark Twain Following the Equator

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

— Jane Yolen