Books Quotes · Page 327

I wish I could just live in my books, then I'd already know what happens...

— Anonymous

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

— Jane Austen

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

— Dick Van Dyke

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

— Franz Kafka

Oh, I never read anything. Mostly, I look at pictures.

— Amanda Lepore

“Read a book, and broaden your perspective on life.”

— Marcia Carrington

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

— Dorothee Solle

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and…

— John Updike

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

— Anonymous

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should…

— Alistair MacLeod

“Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the…

— Mark Edmundson

“He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.”

— Neil Gaiman

“It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.”

— Jaclyn Dolamore

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer…

— Erma Bombeck

“A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. --Cat Spydell”

— Cat Spydell

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned…

— Gillian Flynn

I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will…

— Jack Canfield

My interest in self-help began when I was a child in the Seventies. My mum had a book she would consult regularly:…

— Susanna Reid

“But what if the Bible was not God’s word? What if it was just a collection of books and letters written by…

— Steve McRoberts

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down…

— Stella Maxwell

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…

— Harold Bloom

I've read autobiographies from Per Mertesacker, Jaap Stam, Sol Campbell, John Terry... you name them, I've read them. It helps me improve…

— Matthijs de Ligt

I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or…

— Emily Giffin

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

“one of the mugs, robin saw, read keep clam and proofread”

— Robert Galbraith

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

— Thomas Jefferson

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

— Gene Tierney

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

— Rebecca Solnit

“I never feel lonely if I've got a book; they're like old friends.”

— Emilia Fox

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

— Anne Lamott

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

“To write a novel, you need an iron butt.”

— Richard M. Nixon

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Robert Frost said, “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

— Kim Addonizio

“Would that my mother could be author of my fate ...!”

— M.H.Rakib

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

— Jim C. Hines

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

— Melvyn Bragg

Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

— Haruki Murakami

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

— Christopher Bollen