Books Quotes · Page 252

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.

— Eric Pio

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Books are written through you, not by you”

— Gaurav Punj

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

— Cornelia Funke

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

— Patricia MacLachlan

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

— Anonymous

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

— Davy Jones

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

— James D. Macdonald

“Watch your cigarette cravings in a curious, mindful way. Read CURIOSITY KILLED THE CRAVING.”

— Raj Fernandes

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

— John Irving

“What could be better than to sit besides the fire with a book and a glowing lamp while the wind beats outside…

— Gustave Flaubert

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get…

— Anonymous

“Emilie Buchwald quotes Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”

— Emilie Buchwald

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

— Barbara Corcoran

“I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own…

— Amy Plum

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

— Sheryl Sandberg

There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools…

— Edward Abbey

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them.…

— Marcel Proust

Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their…

— Nick Tosches

“There is also a context constituted by the formation of the literature into a larger whole, a context that is literary and/or…

— R.W.L. Moberly

“It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel,…

— Amy Hill Hearth

Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the…

— Valerie Wilson Wesley

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and…

— Paul Allen

“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee,…

— Charles Bukowski

“It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.”

— Chaim Potok

“Every talented authors were used to be otherwise.”

— AshaD

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

— Anonymous

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

— Michael Swanwick

Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished

— Anonymous

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

— Umberto Eco

“Kids today, they can't even read unless it's spelled wrong on a phone.”

— Mykle Hansen

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

— Dan Brown

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”

— Marcel Proust

“I’m pretty sure I had a romance novel climax.”

— Jade C. Jamison

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

— Norton Juster

When I do homework: books []...library []...google [x]

— Tamika-leeigh

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

— Anne Michaels

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

— Mencius