Books Quotes · Page 303

“Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

— Oprah Winfrey

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

— George R. R. Martin

Never judge a book by its cover, under a rock you might find a diamond :)

— Rachel

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

— Mason Cooley

“This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.”

— Marcel Proust

I'm a huge comic book fan - me and the kids.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Everything in North Korea was about the leader, all the books, music and TV.

— Park Yeon-mi

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

— Jane Smiley

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

— J. Frank Dobie

“You know I always say that a healthy appetite for books leads to a girl with more than looks.”

— Rachel Coker

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a…

— Plutarch

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

— Richard Serra

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

— Will Schwalbe

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

— Andy Dunn

“With the Book hitching rides, hiding on people, guess we’re all going to be dressing like skanks for a while, huh? Skintight…

— Karen Marie Moning

I am a big gamer. I am kind of in the beginning stages of creating a graphic novel entity that would encompass…

— Janina Gavankar

Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the…

— Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

“Most of the ideas I’ve gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a…

— Gary Reilly

“One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of…

— Douglas Wilson

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before…

— Barack Obama

I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great -…

— Kate Grenville

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.…

— Akira Kurosawa

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

— Jeff Bezos

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

— George Herbert

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

— A.A. Attanasio

“Jesus is the Author of peace. He is God’s peacemaker (Ephesians 2:13-14).”

— Mark Hitchcock

“when you already get in to the book,you'll love that book”

— Nadien me

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

— James A. Baldwin

Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

— Walt Whitman

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

— Charles Spurgeon

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

— Simon Hoggart

“The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect.”

— Don DeLillo

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Don't judge people by their cover. Most of their books haven't been written.

— Uknown

“Find room in your heart, and space on your bookshelf, for new authors.”

— Richard Abbott-Brailey

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

— George Stephen