Books Quotes · Page 256

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

— Abraham Cowley

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

— Walt Whitman

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

— Louis L'Amour

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

— Edwin Paxton Hood

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

— Sepp Holzer

I don't think my first book was chick lit.

— Lisa Jewell

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

— Mark Fidrych

'In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how…

— Andrew Guzaldo

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

— Lois Lowry

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

— Richard Flanagan

“Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!”

— CK Webb

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.

— William Golding

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

— Sloane Crosley

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Ride, authors. Write a ride. Figure out what yours is, and then pimp the ever-living shit out of it.”

— Heidi Cullinan

“If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral. John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. "Acclaimed as the most important…

— John McGahern

“To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“To a question about what books to read, Munger replied that he is a biography nut and heartily recommended biographies as a…

— Daniel Pecaut

There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off…

— Mark Leibovich

It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books…

— Virginia Henley

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book…

— Jane Smiley

“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A…

— Cressida Cowell

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss…

— Julio Cortazar

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

— Henry James

“Why buy books when you can read them online”

— Matthew Reilly

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

— Ned Vizzini

“Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.”

— R. YS Perez

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

— Anjelica Huston

Do something every day to market each of your books for three years.

— John Kremer

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

— Eric Hoffer

Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.

— Julie Andrews

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

— Lin Yutang

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

— Sophie Thompson

“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.”

— Ellery Adams

“Closing our books we walked into the air”

— Clere Parsons

Why buy a book when you can join a library?

— Ricky Gervais

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

“When I want to read a book, I write one.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.

— Mathew Knowles