Books Quotes · Page 308

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

— Josephus Daniels

“Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!”

— Michele Lynn Seigfried

“Whitley Strieber, who wrote about his own abduction in the book Communion.”

— Monte Cook

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

I don't want to read an article about myself.

— Justin Herbert

“Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.”

— Ricky Maye

These books are my friends, my companions.

— Christopher Paolini

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

— Leonard Michaels

“This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have…

— Alison Miller

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built…

— Buenaventura Durruti

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

— Victor Hugo

“Like the principles of bookkeeping, keep on booking the principles of life. Happy learning.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

— May Sarton

I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.

— Sophie Dahl

A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it…

— Carol Higgins Clark

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any…

— Mac Barnett

“Just easy. Life feels like it’s always hard. There’s never a calm way to get through it, to just breathe. Every day…

— E.L. Montes

I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was…

— Daniel Kaluuya

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you…

— David Shrigley

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation,…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college,…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls…

— Oscar Wilde

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

— Iris Murdoch

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

— James D. Watson

“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...”

— Henry James

When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

— Oscar Levant

hey guys i would like you to try this book you will love it!

— Jeff Kinney

What little faith I had just died, and now its taking me under with it.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Book of Mormon = the best thing I've ever seen, ever.

— Cory Monteith

I meditate, I read, and I work out alone sometimes.

— Skip Marley

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

— Cassandra Clare

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

— Frank Zappa

“People have emotional ties to books, more often than you think...”

— Jill Hathaway

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

— Karen Robards

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

— Patricia Cornwell

“For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.”

— Martin Edwards