Books Quotes · Page 270

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

— Janice Dickinson

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide

“Books are so much more reliable than people.”

— Amy Cross

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

— Judy Blume

“A good reader has the power to move the world.”

— Aman Jassal

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Better watch her. She burns other people's books.”

— Tsukumizu

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

— Martin Lewis Perl

The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special…

— Walt Frazier

“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.”

— T.E. Lawrence

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

— Hilary Mantel

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years…

— E M Forster

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any…

— Johann Most

Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime…

— Park Yeon-mi

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that…

— Marlon Brando

“anxiety, new fathers were a thousand times worse. Anything that didn’t go by the book threw them into a tizzy. Being informed…

— Judith Arnold

“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are…

— Graham Greene

I remember growing up and being too afraid to ask questions about things that were in the Bible. In my younger days,…

— Sashauni Aaeliyae

If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other…

— Italo Calvino

“See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig…

— Margaret Wrinkle

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader…

— William Anderson

And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world…

— Jeanette Winterson

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

— S. E. Hinton

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

— Japanese Proverb

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

— Anonymous

Books seem so much more interesting in the book store.

— Anonymous

“But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.”

— John Green

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on”

— Helene Hanff

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Anonymous

“Grace will always make the difference Book Only by grace”

— Solomon Teddy Osei

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

— Amy Klobuchar

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

— Sophie Dahl

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

— Caroline Kennedy

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak