Books Quotes · Page 314

“Leadership. More than a New York Times best seller book.”

— Alin Sav

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

— Terry Bradshaw

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

— Richard Donner

My passion for books has changed my life.

— Marley Dias

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

— Daniel J. Bernstein

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”

— John Grisham

Isn't it true that many students do more of facebook than facing their book? You can never cook stones and expect meat.

— Abegunde Sunday O

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

— Julius Streicher

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach…

— Paul Auster

“Songs are just novels that get to the point quicker. Though I don't imagine that Ke$ha's book would be clean YA...”

— Inda Herwood

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

— Dana Gould

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a…

— William Faulkner

“Actually the contents of these books mattered little. What did matter was what they first felt when they went into the library,…

— Albert Camus

“if you wish to be the author of reality, which is totally impossible anyway, you will insist on holding onto judgment. You…

— Helen Schucman

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend…

— Berenice Bejo

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing…

— Ralph Fiennes

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers.…

— David Talbot

“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

My father probably taught me everything I know, aside from dialogue, which I think I get from my mom a lot more.…

— John Buffalo Mailer

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

— Paul Virilio

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

— John Updike

First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.

— Reggie Lee

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

— Jennifer Weiner

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

— Daniel Clowes

“reading a book is like being a new person”

— Jasmine Irwin

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

“In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.”

— Andy Seven

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

— Manuel Puig

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

— Suheir Hammad

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

— Anne Sexton

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,

— Andrea Hirata

“I have seen unicorns, but only in books.”

— Jennifer Clark and Stephonie Williams