Books Quotes · Page 254

“It pained Emily to her librarian’s soul to see books mistreated like this.”

— Deborah Harkness

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

— Meg Rosoff

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

— Eric Bentley

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

— Alexander McQueen

This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.

— Steve Lawson

“If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.”

— Maggie Osborne

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

— N. V. M. Gonzalez

I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways.

— Mona Simpson

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

— Philip James Bailey

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

— Hilaire Belloc

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

— Alastair Reynolds

“For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will…

— Rex Stout

Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and…

— Flann O'Brien

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the…

— Dan Brown

“Better be wrong to a stranger than be wrong to your husband - Treacherous Desires Book”

— Kritika Sharma

“So…you're not going to tell me what they mean? C'mon. What's the Hob? Why Forks?” When I stand, I switch to my…

— Anne Eliot

“And then—the languid hands dropped the uncut book. War, revolution, an absurd marriage, being chosen as the “dictator of his home town,”…

— Teffi

“If you take one thing from this book let it be this: even the dying are alive. If you're a reader with…

— Hannah Hodgson

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and…

— Karen Swallow Prior

When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and…

— Nick Offerman

I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of…

— Michael Ruhlman

“Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called "Of Grammatology". When Madeleine…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Most people feel they lack the intelligence to find the right way for them, but this is merely misunderstanding. Intelligence has nothing…

— Robert Anthony

“They also serve who only fetch books and read.”

— K. Velk

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

— Dav Pilkey

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books,

— Barbara Park

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

— Robertson Davies

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

— Hallie Ephron

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

— Ellen G. White

Looks can be deceiving. NEVER judge a book by it's cover.

— Anonymous

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.

— Matt Skiba

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

— Carnie Wilson

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

— Gay Talese

“It made them feel, as all good books do, less alone.”

— Jason Fagone

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

— Allan Bloom

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.”

— Anonymous