Books Quotes · Page 328

All these books are published in Heaven.

— Allen Ginsberg

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

— Mark Twain

“Desire to learn. Desire to read. Desire to think. Desire to write.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

— Suzanne Farrell

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

— Tennessee Williams

People are like books each one has it's own story to tell

— Ellysa Bacani

“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

— Thomas Fuller

“They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them" from the poem - STAY in the…

— Jay Woodman

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about…

— Meg Wolitzer

I made a wedding planning book and a whole double page is dedicated to the dogs.

— Stacey Solomon

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

— David Mitchell

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

— Rebecca Serle

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing…

— Henry Winkler

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience…

— William James

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

— Barack Obama

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to…

— David Guterson

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their…

— Jef I Richards

“It is hard for me to believe that Miss Groby ever saw any work of literature from far enough away to know…

— James Thurber

“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had…

— Mary Butts

“You know, for someone who holds a position of legal authority as high as yours, you sure do like to throw away…

— Kay Hooper

I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.…

— George Pelecanos

She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug…

— Alice Munro

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that…

— Dave Itzkoff

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

— Henry David Thoreau

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

— Lurlene McDaniel

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

— Vikram Seth

“You read a book all the way through? Why?”

— Bart Simpson

“Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men”

— Kerry E. Wagner

“If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.”

— Socrates

“Isn´t it cool? Words, books, fiction all have the power to kill.”

— Project Itoh

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

— Regina Brett

“Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.”

— Adam Cozad and David Koepp

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

— Prince

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

— Tracy Morgan

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