Books Quotes · Page 204

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

— Oscar Wilde

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

— James MacArthur

Read my face tell me how much of a fuck you think I give.

— Unkown

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

— Haruki Murakami

I didn't think I could pull off a novel.

— Shane Dawson

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

“I don't believe it pays to be a great author.”

— Jean Webster

“On books and friends I spend my money; For stones and bricks I haven't any.”

— Ruskin Bond

The only time I open my books to do homework is when I can't think of anything else to do.

— Anonymous

“Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word. When I read: I want to feel... When I…

— Suzanne Steele

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as…

— Michel de Montaigne

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

— Norah Jones

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

— Katherine Applegate

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

— Frank Peretti

Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesnt mean its the end of the book.

— Anonymous

Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.

— John Grisham

I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to…

— Eric Hill

“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life…

— Rick Revelle

“If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The…

— Mark Twain

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,…

— Bill Bryson

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not…

— William S. Burroughs

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense…

— Lisa Loeb

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will…

— Noah Webster

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

— Romain Gary

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.

— Emma Roberts

“Remember that the first rule when editing a book is to DO NO HARM.”

— Shawn Coyne

No, I can't write a novel. I don't have a story.

— Harry Enfield

Real life sucks. I'm going to go read a book...

— Anonymous

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

— George Whitman

Most people no longer read book, they facebook.

— Deri Isaac

“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.”

— Sylvia L'Namira

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

— Meg Rosoff

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

— Paul Celan

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

— Vladimir Horowitz

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

— Ridley Scott

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

— A. A. Milne