Books Quotes · Page 203

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”

— Fay Weldon

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

— David Letterman

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

— Miles Teller

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

— Hamza Yusuf

“The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.”

— Tim Campbell

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

— Janet Evanovich

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

— Dorothy Parker

“What you read SHAPES what you think and what you think SHAPES what you achieve in your life.”

— SuccessCoach Nilesh

“The book “Little Women,” what, is that about midgets? I freaking love midgets.”

— Jarod Kintz

Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

— Anonymous

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

— Robin Morgan

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and…

— Samuel Johnson

“My skin was as bumpy as a book in Braille, confessing all I could not say. And his long, slender fingers read…

— A&E Kirk

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here…

— Lauren DeStefano

“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“If you want to know what we are, look at the men reading books, searching in the dark pages of history for…

— Carlos Bulosan

In my couple of books, including Going Clear, the book about Scientology, I thought it seemed appropriate at the end of the…

— Lawrence Wright

“Like Doctor Who’s TARDIS, or like the house in that book Anna had loaned him once, the one where a bunch of…

— Bryan Smith

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way.…

— Sylvia Day

“I think a free library is an outrageous perk. I think being able to take out 50 books at a time is…

— Don Borchert

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

— Mo Willems

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

— Eugene Field

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

— Rick Fox

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

— Michel Faber

We want to win trophies and be in the record books.

— Rafael Benitez

I have always been into reading serious material.

— Suhasini Mulay

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

— Betty MacDonald

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

— Richard Russo

I feel music is another kind of literature.

— Kevin Young

“Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

— Anthony Storr

“to read or not to read... that is a silly question”

— Harlequin