Books Quotes · Page 313

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

— Tobias Wolff

“I was born with a reading list that never ends.”

— Maud Casey

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

“Read a lot. Write a lot. Delete a lot.”

— Hannah Richell

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

— Cornelia Funke

“Books mean more than people to me anyway.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

— Julia Alvarez

Don't judge a book by its covers .. What's inside matters ..

— Kemis Khan

“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.”

— Lawrence Welk

When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading…

— Tony Dungy

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

— Charlaine Harris

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

— Peter Brodie

“Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

— Kathy Acker

There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.

— Maria Konnikova

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in…

— Sven Birkerts

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able…

— Rosellen Brown

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to…

— Stephen King

“Do you care for any contemporary authors?” Matthew inquired. “I adore Jane Austen.” Matthew nodded. “I find her portrait of British society…

— Laila Ibrahim

“Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Luella had been Lou's favorite grandma. Some grandmas took their grandchildren to parks, or bought them books and dolls, or shared their…

— Amy E. Reichert

The last book I read to my mom was 'Barbara Bush: A Memoir' published by mom in 1994. It reflected on their…

— Neil Bush

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This…

— Brandon Sanderson

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin…

— Lawrence Venuti

“Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.”

— Lavie Tidhar

I learned about sex the hard way... from books.

— Emo Philips

books are like confort food without the calories

— Elizabeth Berg

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

— Susan Sontag

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

— David Pogue

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

— Larry Niven

Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

— Stephen Marche

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

— Paullina Simons

“As an author, I'd rather by read than rich”

— K.B. Stevens

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.

— Valerie Harper

“Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart”

— Carmela Dutra

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

— Julia Quinn

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

— Dejan Stojanovic

If you could read my mind, you'd be in tears.

— Anonymous

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

— Susan Griffin