Books Quotes · Page 234

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

— Mark Twain

“The only thing better than a good book is a really good book!”

— James McLaughlin

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

— Joe Lhota

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

“I don’t know how [books] accumulate like that. They’re part rabbit, I think.”

— Beatriz Williams

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

— Edward Hirsch

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

— Robert McCloskey

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

— Dan Brown

“The death of someone is like reading a book, yet having it end, where it wasn't supposed to.”

— Cindy Vo Nguyen

“An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...”

— Catherine Lyon a

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

— Alan Lightman

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

— Jack Canfield

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get…

— Jonathan Kozol

We are all born fallen, and there is nothing we can do to overcome the original sin!

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book…

— Jennifer Egan

“Really good work probably comes out of a willingness to disclose yourself, open yourself up in spiritual and emotional ways that risk…

— David Foster Wallace

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become…

— Karen Armstrong

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every…

— W. H. Auden

I'm not the crazy chick that people think I am. I am truly a human being, I'm not just this suspicious character…

— Keke Wyatt

“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for…

— Ellery Adams

“Working on the Dark Side of the Moon" is meant to lift the curtain on secret places where smart, dedicated people work…

— Thomas Reed Willemain

I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media…

— Jeanette Winterson

A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and…

— Peter Orner

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

— William Wordsworth

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

— Anderson Cooper

“Montana Promise A McCutcheon Family Novel Book Ten”

— Caroline Fyffe

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

— Will Hobbs

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

— Malcolm X

“The right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”

— Robin Sloan

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

— Ma Jian

I don't like to make my life like a book.

— Marc Newson

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

A good book is an education of the heart.

— Susan Sontag

“A series of books is really one book separated into several.”

— Maribel Pagan

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

— Terry Pratchett

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”

— Carolyn Keene

“Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.”

— Sara Sheridan

I 'like' the facebook…, But I dont 'like' to my Books…

— Nileshac

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

— Tama Janowitz