Books Quotes · Page 324

“Story is the greatest human mystery." Alex Miller, author, at BRWF 2014”

— Alex Miller

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

— Terry Pratchett

Never judged the book without reading by its own page

— Mikoi

The book's always better than the movie.

— Richelle Mead

“Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!”

— Carmela Dutra

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

— Emily Dickinson

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

— Holliday Grainger

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

— Emma Roberts

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside…

— Salman Rushdie

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

— Wendy Mass

Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested…

— Howard Jacobson

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what…

— Carew Papritz

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an…

— Agatha Christie

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

— Phyllis McGinley

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started…

— Nigel Lythgoe

I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me…

— John Mackey

Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago.…

— Anonymous

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of…

— Michael P. Anderson

What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

“In literary practices the idea of a single subject is also all-powerful. It is uncommon for books to be signed. The concept…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for…

— Alice Walker

“I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it…

— Leah Raeder

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to…

— David McCullough

“I wrote long reviews of all four books if you want to take a look.”

— Manny Rayner

“Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!”

— Carmela Dutra

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

— Charlie Chaplin

I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

— Josh Brolin

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

— Joanna Coles

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

— Jesmyn Ward

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

— Joyce Carey

“The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda”

— Roald Dahl

“The Holy Bible is the best of all books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

— Albert Einstein

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

— Brian Lumley

I write romance because I love to read romance.

— Rachel Gibson

The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

— Barry Eisler

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The book is man's best invention so far.”

— Carolina Maria de Jesus