Books Quotes · Page 293

“Being able to read and knowing how to read are completely different concepts.”

— S.A. Garcia

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

— Dana Carvey

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

— Storm Jameson

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

— Ntozake Shange

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

— Barbara Park

“Books are the flung-open windows to a parallel universe.”

— Kevin Ansbro

“That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.”

— Billy Wilder

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

— H. G. Wells

You have in you a Thousand times More than is in all books.Never lose Faith in Yourself,You can do anything in this…

— Anonymous

“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.”

— Richard Marek

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

— Erica Jong

“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

— Alice Mattison

“Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine,…

— Andrew Lang

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,…

— Markus Zusak

Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like…

— Harry Crews

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there…

— Eudora Welty

In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up…

— Maud Newton

“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can…

— Muriel Spark

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!…

— Andrew Lang

As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love…

— Clancy Martin

If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.”

— Paul Auster

“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”

— Hilda Van Stockum

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

— Emma Donoghue

My father spoke several languages and he had hundreds of books.

— Michele Lamy

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

— John Carter Cash

I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.

— Jason Momoa

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”

— Mark Twain

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

— Hermann Hesse

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Wings of a half finished book across his chest.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

— Carl Sagan

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

— John Muir

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

I've never known how to read music in my life.

— Ronnie Montrose

“someone who lends his book is stupid, but one who returns it is stupider”

— Darmanto Jatman