Books Quotes · Page 248

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.”

— Gilbert Highet

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

— Richard Flanagan

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

— Rick Moody

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

— Walter Benjamin

Where would fashion be without literature?

— Diana Vreeland

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up your vocab”

— Bun B

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

— Heinrich Heine

Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

— Rumaan Alam

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation…

— Anonymous

Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.

— Draymond Green

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

— Walter Mosley

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his…

— Paracelsus

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

— Margaret Walker

“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions…

— A.A. Milne

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the…

— David Ogilvy

Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the…

— Terry Brooks

“Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um... What? River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics…

— Ben Edlund

“A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole nor seek…

— Alexander Pope

[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I have a strong say in how my books are marketed, and the covers - I am very firm that I don't…

— Jane Fallon

It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the…

— Janet Fitch

“I took care to replace the Compendium in its correct pamphlet, and in doing so dislodged a slim pamphlet by Grastrom, one…

— Stanisław Lem

Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end…

— Tim Burton

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in book

— Anonymous

“The world of books is the only paradise there is.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

— Wim Wenders

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

— Rocco DiSpirito

An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.

— Olaf Tyaransen

Good teachers can make great authors accessible to new generations anywhere.

— Damian Green

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

— Anonymous

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

— Catherine Tresa

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

— Judy Blume

I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.

— Megan Abbott

“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

— Andreï Makine

“join their company. This book will show you the way.”

— Ryan Holiday

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

— Helen Fisher

I like to get to bed early and read a book.

— Rachel Khoo

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

— W. P. Kinsella

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg