Books Quotes · Page 294

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

— John Edgar Wideman

Life is like a novel but with the end ripped out

— Rascal Flatts

“If you think reading is boring, you're doing it wrong.”

— Anonymous

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

“I slipped into art to escape life. I sneaked off into literature.”

— Rabih Alameddine

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

— Charles Spurgeon

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

— Barbara Mertz

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the…

— Gunter Grass

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about…

— Will Schwalbe

“To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I want my books to be the illicit secret pleasure each reader is anxiously anticipating to open and savor.”

— Melinda De Ross

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

— Diane Setterfield

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both…

— George Saunders

I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.…

— Danzy Senna

I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here…

— Jon Evans

“If you missed your chance to read a particular book, even if it was recommended to you or is one you have…

— Marie Kondō

Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me…

— Tess Gerritsen

I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying…

— Tony Burgess

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it…

— Gary Shteyngart

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, and effectual comforter. By study,…

— Barrow

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but…

— Oliver Harris

“I'm the fine print; read closely. -Kristina Grish”

— Larry Smith

Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?

— Matt Chandler

“If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.”

— Mark Twain

Books are the training weights of the mind.

— Epictetus

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

— Arundhati Roy

I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness.

— Torrey Peters

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

— Joe Manganiello

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

— Garrison Keillor

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

— Etel Adnan

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

— Tim O'Reilly

“Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.”

— Rose Christo

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

— Joseph J. Ellis

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

— William Golding

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

— Franz Kafka

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

— David Morrell

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

— Dinaw Mengestu