Books Quotes · Page 289

He is running not for election but for the history books.

— George J Church

“Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?”

— Michael Gruber

Every new album for me is a blank book of stories to write.

— Laufey

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

— Joseph Joubert

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

— George Gissing

“Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.”

— Luther Blissett

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

— Hilary Mantel

Fans have given me a lot of books about the jungle!

— Jin

I'm not a massive reader of online comments but I come across the odd comment where people still question if I'm English.…

— Moeen Ali

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them,…

— Laurel Lea

“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read…

— Terry Goodkind

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“A sincere hug or a well-placed kiss can communicate a book of words in a single moment.”

— Kim Meeder

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right…

— Michele Bachmann

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

— Julia Alvarez

“Most important quality in the man of your dreams? No, my dears, it isn’t great hair. Or even killer abs. In my…

— Inglath Cooper

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away,…

— Annie Dillard

In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions,…

— Paul Vitz

“Susan Cain, Harvard Law School graduate and author of the culture-shifting bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t…

— Amy Cuddy

I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and…

— Jennifer Lawrence

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea…

— Frederick Lenz

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are…

— Henry James

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

— Haruki Murakami

“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.”

— Frank Morton McMurry

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

— Winston Churchill

My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.

— Jane Fallon

“A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.”

— Susan Vreeland

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

— Erik Spiekermann

“A single act for humanity is better that write hundred books on humanity”

— Farhan Muhammad khan

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

— Ray Bradbury

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

— W. P. Kinsella

“I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet.”

— Richard HR Penn

“We awaken by asking the right questions.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Believers today are to obey the Scriptures, just as in the first century.”

— Henry Hon

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

— Ravi Shankar