Books Quotes · Page 227

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

— Mariella Frostrup

I was a comic book nut. For real. I still have a collection in my closet.

— Joe Russo

“And I can't read your mind either, just your face.”

— Kim Harrison

“The Book of Us. I’m writing it. And you’re in it.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm not a mind reader, your unspoken words doesn't tell me anything at all.

— Nikhil Saluja

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

— James Gould Cozzens

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

— Lana Del Rey

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the…

— Julie Burchill

As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were…

— Yvonne Orji

I first read 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' when I was a kid. And I think it was read to…

— Will Poulter

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in…

— Billy Joel

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books…

— Nathan Lowell

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.”

— Wesley D. Gray

If you are going to judge a book by its cover, don't be disappointed if the story tells a different tale.

— Kos

“I believe strongly that my books are entertainment. I hope you might learn a thing or two while reading them, but first…

— Suzanne Brockmann

“Be very careful. We suggest getting a book on HTML to avoid becoming a real legend in the hacker world. Putting up…

— Emmanuel Goldstein

“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...…

— Virginia Woolf

“Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It’s the writer’s job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make…

— Thomas Canty

Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project…

— Richard Ford

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so…

— Erin McKean

“When Jesus was hailed with the words, “Blessed be the womb that bore you,” he retorted, “Blessed be the one whom God…

— Franz Rosenthal

I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is…

— Dave McKean

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

— Ernest Hemingway

“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”

— Orna Ross

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

— Elizabeth McCracken

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

— John Milton

“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”

— James Turner

Children's books are by nature partisan.

— Eric Walters

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

— Tayari Jones

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

— Martellus Bennett

I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

— Judi Shekoni

I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.

— Amanda Knox

“I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.”

— Paul W. Feenstra

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”

— Aman Jassal