Books Quotes · Page 262

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

— Amos Oz

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

— Anonymous

I always seem to be reading several books at once.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!”

— K. Lamb

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

— Charlaine Harris

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

— Martin Amis

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

— Robert Burton

“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”

— Kevin Kelly

“Books are majical. With books we can be anyone, go everywhere, and do anything.”

— Brenda Tetreault

“I loved books—not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the…

— Laurelin Paige

“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence.”

— John Alfred Langford

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

— Mark Helprin

“When you told me you wrote a book, I laughed. Then I read it, and I wasn't laughing any more. It was…

— My Husband about Demon Mine

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

— Walter Hill

“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.” Charles…

— Aaron Council

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

— Herta Muller

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a…

— Joe Bradley

“The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not…

— Patricia Hickman

“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but…

— Shannon Alder

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really…

— Khaled Hosseini

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have…

— Chath Piersath

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing…

— Neil Strauss

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the…

— Rachel Kushner

I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the…

— David B. Coe

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

— Arnold Bennett

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

— P. D. James

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

— Louise Brown

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

— Carol Shields

“You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

— Aldous Huxley

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

— Martha Nussbaum

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em

— Zack de la Rocha

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

When I was your age, television was called books.

— William Goldman

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

— Natalie Babbitt

“Even when all other forms of communication fail, books will remain.”

— George Brockway

“Always judge a book by it's cover! Go against the grain!”

— TheBook Crew

“Book fill me in, with the romance I always wanted in my life.”

— nivedita vedurla

“Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

— Eddie Trunk