Books Quotes · Page 224

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

— Danilo Kis

“You’re covered in books, not monsters.”

— Anonymous

I will read four or five books at the same time.

— Teri Polo

“You are rich because of what is in your heart, not your pocket book.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

— Ronald Blythe

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

— Stephen King

“Okay, you guys, look up here. Omar did something good readers do.”

— Cris Tovani

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

— Edward Gibbon

“the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence…

— Lewis Carroll

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

— Ben Horowitz

“A person who can read and doesn't, is no better off than a person who can't read.”

— Alton Carter

Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters…

— Marguerite Henry

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in…

— Peter Orner

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

— Robert Vaughan

I travel a lot for work, so downloading books is easier than carrying them around.

— Laila Rouass

Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of…

— Elif Batuman

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or…

— Markus Zusak

Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. "I'll find you something else to read.…

— Cassandra Clare

The guides from the book of Joshua will combine to provide the most powerful source of courage and strength there is: faith…

— Ann M. Dibb

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.…

— Theodora Goss

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character…

— George Saunders

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do…

— Alan Furst

“Books open and broaden our minds allowing us to challenge ourselves to become more than we are, by setting positive goals for…

— Ellen J. Barrier

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

— Pete Rose

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

— Robert Greene

“Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.”

— Susie Derkins

“People read to escape reality. I write to give them realities to escape to.”

— Radcliff Lance

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

— Caroline Gordon

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

— Jose Marti

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

— Charles Lamb

“There's nothing like the feel of an old book in your hands.”

— Kathryn Shay

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

— Alice Walker

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

— Michael Winterbottom

I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.

— Lena Dunham

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

— William Hazlitt

The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

— John Berendt