Books Quotes · Page 240

*i open my math book* *i start to cry* *i close my math book*

— Anonymous

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

— Charles Stross

Life is like a story; each day is a brand new chapter.

— Anonymous

“Her first digitally published book is The Job Offer.”

— Eleanor Webb

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

— Mary Wesley

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”

— Núria Añó

“Oh, gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book!”

— Anonymous

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

— Mark Twain

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful…

— Anonymous

No Tinder, no Match, nothing. I don't mind going up to people when I'm out. I have a better chance of getting…

— Christen Press

Substance of your belief has nothing to do with the size of the book you use or how often you open it.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“- Do you have books? - Books on what? - any thing, comets, gravity, black holes ... - Yeah, I've got Shakespeare,…

— Conversation

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will…

— Marc Andreessen

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional…

— Georges Simenon

“~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was…

— Jennifer Malone Wright

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among…

— Neil Gaiman

I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really…

— Jessica Valenti

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as…

— Dave Gibbons

I'm done with books for a while. They take a lot of time, and they take a lot out of you. Maybe…

— Brian Welch

“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.”

— Martin Tupper

“One word at a time, makes a novel at the finish line." - Vik Tory Arch”

— Vik Tory Arch

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

— Anonymous

It is my nature to thin where others read.

— Thomas Sydenham

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

— Abraham Lincoln

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

— Jean M. Auel

“Closure’s a sham invented by talk-show hosts and self-help authors.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

— Mariella Frostrup

“You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.”

— Lisa Nichols

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

— Jeff Bezos

I can't retire. My readers won't let me.

— Clive Cussler

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

— Michael Ondaatje

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

— Lea Seydoux

I've never read a comic book in my life.

— Boyd Holbrook

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer