Books Quotes · Page 206

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

— Jane Smiley

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

— Alberto Manguel

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”

— Thomas Wharton

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

When a new book is published, read an old one.

— Samuel Rogers

“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

— Thomas Keller

I'm an open book. I share a lot of my life with everybody.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

— Anonymous

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find…

— Jeff McManus

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

— Roma Downey

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is…

— Steven Spielberg

If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with…

— Pete Holmes

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some…

— Peter Gabriel

I think it’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations…

— John Podesta

“It was a journalist (it was always journalists these days), and she had something to read to him. She’d had a crash…

— Zadie Smith

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when…

— Katy Perry

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books.…

— Umberto Eco

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a…

— Nick Park

“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the…

— Henry Miller

“Why not admit that my dissatisfaction reveals an excessive ambition, perhaps a megalomaniac delirium? For the writer who wants to annul himself…

— Italo Calvino

Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer…

— Elif Batuman

“Hoagland’s book, The Monuments of Mars.”

— David Wilcock

“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.”

— Julie Rugg

“We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.”

— George RR Martin

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

— Bernie Taupin

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

— Brandon Sanderson

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

— M. K. Hobson

My friends all know this: I'm an open book.

— Brandi Glanville

“May I have a few friends and many books - both true.”

— Anonymous

The more you read, the more you calm down.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.”

— Neil Leckman

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

— Maryanne Wolf

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

You give me the kind of feeling people write novels about.

— Obviously Me :p

“Go on, read number three. I don’t have all day. I have to get to”

— Penelope Ward