Books Quotes · Page 22

Never judge a cover by its book.

— Fran Lebowitz

In quiet moments, I love to read.

— Lauren Tarshis

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I write novels and other things.

— Jack L. Chalker

I wish I could read people's minds.

— Nora Fatehi

“I might read until I feel better.”

— Anonymous

May books spread the world over!

— Yann Martel

I read the Bible every day.

— Denzel Washington

“You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books”

— Carter Burden

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

— Chloe Sevigny

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

— Shepherd Mead

I love to read. My favorite book series is 'Cherubs'.

— Millicent Simmonds

I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so

— Sydney Smith

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

— Oscar Wilde

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

— John Buchan

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without…

— Sam Harris

“She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of…

— Pat Conroy

Comic books are a big thing. I looked at them when I was a kid. I'm not a kid anymore, so I…

— Scott Steiner

You do not have to practise all that you read. Take one or two things to practise and then it will become…

— Sathya Sai Baba

I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the…

— Cesaro

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

— Bryan Talbot

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your…

— Tom Peters

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader…

— Jonathan Lethem

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains…

— Julian Barnes

I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political…

— Angela Alioto

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least…

— Mary Karr

Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that…

— Scott Bradfield

Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that…

— D. A. Carson

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book…

— A. S. Byatt

I'm wondering what to read next.

— Roald Dahl

Let my temptation be a book.

— Eugene Field

“I turned to books for comfort.”

— Laura Bush

Books are absent teachers.

— Mortimer Adler

My Book and Heart Shall never part.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Reading makes you learn more.”

— Anonymous

Real poverty is lack of books.

— Sidonie Gabrielle

I never read comic books as a kid.

— Al Jourgensen