Books Quotes · Page 221

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

— Ilyasah Shabazz

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

— Kevin O'Leary

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book

— Eric Carle

“All men should give books instead of flowers.”

— Amber Scott

“We are two girls, with endless thoughts of provocative romance.”

— Candace Werts Nikki Hoy

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

I think Amazon has been great for readers.

— MacKenzie Scott

“turn off your television and read a book!”

— Saxon Bennett

I wrote a tennis book about Chris Evert and her then-husband, John Lloyd. It was called 'Lloyd on Lloyd' and became a…

— Carol Thatcher

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better…

— George Pelecanos

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day.

— Samuel Butler

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

— James Frey

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing…

— Glen Duncan

“I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.”

— John Wyndham

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

— Fanny Fern

The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America…

— David Cay Johnston

“He'd stolen his philosophy of editing from the old New Critics—it's just about the book. Not the author, not the market, not…

— Tiffany Reisz

One thing that's nice about writing a book about food is - unless it's from a specific place - you can revisit…

— Michelle Zauner

“Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Are you busy?" the caller would ask. "Yes I'm working." Sitting in my chair, cats nearby, I was reading a great book.…

— Nina Sankovitch

If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the…

— Nicholas Sparks

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes…

— Garth Stein

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

— Anonymous

I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

— Dylan Moran

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

— Betty Smith

DON'T JUDGE A BOOK WITHOUT KNOWING THE STORY

— Twin037

“There are no girl books. There are no boy books. There are just books.”

— Libba Bray

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock…

— Philip Larkin

“People don’t read as much anymore. That’s why they’re so stupid.”

— Isabella Fontaine

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I wanted to become immortal. So I wrote a book.”

— T.M. Williams

“You can write books, but there’s only ever one book that’s really you.”

— Joan G. Robinson

“Hippocratic text read, ‘the womb is the origin of all diseases’.”

— Andrew Scull

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen

“If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.”

— Meg Cabot

I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

— Chris Van Allsburg

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

— Judy Blume

“A famous author is a promoter who never quit.”

— Kristin James