Books Quotes · Page 305

I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.

— Natalie Portman

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

— Lev Grossman

“Why do we need school when we have BOOKS?”

— Kim

“Don't leave life until life leaves you. from the book 'I Know Who You Are!”

— Fatima Masood

“I never found a book that did not have at least a little magic in it”

— William Ritter

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

— Billy Collins

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

— Rex Stout

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special…

— Genesis Rodriguez

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

— Peter Landin

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

— Michael Dirda

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

— Tracy Chevalier

“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging…

— Richard Due

“Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the…

— J Oswald Sanders

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more…

— Clive James

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

— Paul G. Tremblay

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got…

— Terry Pratchett

“Since then he has said nothing and although from time to time I have thrown out what I hope were delicate hints…

— Patrick O'Brian

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the…

— William Goldman

“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same…

— Will Schwalbe

I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos…

— Ransom Riggs

I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's…

— Gary Giddins

“He thought how easy it would be to write an entire book on Johannesburg violence. The strike leader Pickaxe Mary, after whom…

— Harry Kalmer

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever…

— Mizuki Nomura

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

— Cesar Chavez

I can read and arrange, but I can't write.

— Nina Simone

“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.”

— Devonnie A. Black

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

— Kit Pearson

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

— Frank Ocean

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

— Cornelia Funke

“The secret of my health; I inhale books.”

— Meghna Sodha

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

— Jodi Picoult

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

— Eric Greitens

“the books shot off the shelf like academic projectile puke.”

— Leigh Evans

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

— Anonymous

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

“Conviction Book two in the Consolation Duet Corinne Michaels”

— Corinne Michaels

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

— Ed Koch