Books Quotes · Page 265

“How many books had she touched? How many had she felt?”

— Markus Zusak

You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.

— Joey Jordison

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

— Bob Newhart

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

— Anonymous

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All authors to their own defects are blind.

— John Dryden

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

— Umberto Eco

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

“I have come to the conclusion that I will definitely die before I read all the books on my To Read shelf.”

— Ldc

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

— Megan Fox

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical…

— Alice Mattison

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or…

— Robert Sheckley

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

— Jennifer Weiner

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

— Robert B. Parker

I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you…

— Joseph Campbell

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is…

— Joy Williams

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time…

— Douglas Coupland

“...What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A…

— J.D. Salinger

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention…

— Ayad Akhtar

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy…

— Jane Smiley

“After my first book was published, I received an envelope full of religious material from a fan who wanted to save my…

— Carol O'Connell

“Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen.…

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

— Alison Tyler

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

— Gertrude Stein

“Theur is no friend as loyal as a book.”

— Earnest

A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

You should write a book, you tell great stories

— Anonymous

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

— Justin Cartwright

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

— Jason Ellis

I very seldom read back into what I've written.

— John Berger

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!

— Bobby Fischer

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

— Wendell H. Ford

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

— Martha MacIsaac

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

— Leila Slimani

Never judge a book without reading it first:P

— Mario Calderon