Books Quotes · Page 288

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

— Ronald Fisher

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

— Thomas Jefferson

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

— Lord Byron

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

— Ann Patchett

“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”

— Ray Bradbury

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book..

— Anonymous

You cannot start reading without being learned.

— Naqi Mirza

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

“Unfortunately, Erica's talent was acting, his writing, and gauging by her superior smirk, she was a reader, too, and he an open…

— Eden Winters

I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is…

— Bill Bright

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be…

— John Wesley

I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.

— Stephen McCauley

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

— Karl Marx

“[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth,…

— John Bennett

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If…

— James Patterson

Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if…

— Rachel Renée Russell

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure…

— Christopher Morley

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one…

— Ron Rash

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to…

— Mira Bartok

Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to…

— Ruth Ware

Of course there are a lot of books that are interesting to make movies out of, but on the other hand, I…

— Uwe Boll

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has…

— Mary H.K. Choi

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

— LeVar Burton

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

— Georges Simenon

“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace… 1 CORINTHIANS 14:33 KJV”

— Joyce Meyer

“Life with books makes my world complete.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Feed your soul; books, places, people, anything. That helps it grow.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

“If you did not read the book, you don't know the story.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

“If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.”

— Lorii Myers

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

— Robin Sloan

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves.”

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

— Walter Jon Williams

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

— Rebecca McClanahan

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

— John Barrowman

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

— Anonymous