Books Quotes · Page 331

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

— Jason Momoa

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

— Aminatta Forna

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

— Alastair Reynolds

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

— Vanna Bonta

Teaching how to read isn't the easiest thing.

— T. J. Oshie

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

— Laurence Sterne

“Librarians know books, we live books, we breathe books, we are books.”

— Jenny Levine

As far as exercising goes...watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.

— Drew Carey

'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the…

— Roma Downey

“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]”

— Harold Bloom

“I like to curl up in a quiet corner and write a good book. I hate when life gets in the way…

— Carrie Olguin

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story -…

— Jill McCorkle

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the…

— Thomas Hobbes

“If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as…

— Jane Yolen

“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Pacts with the devil have been made many times. There is no other way to explain the popularity of the book Fifty…

— Jennifer Wright

I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to…

— Jon J Muth

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined…

— Ian Mcewan

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While…

— Bernie Taupin

“Right, by tomorrow morning everyone will have congregated in Le Havre and you can all pile in the car and come back…

— Neal Stephenson

“Whenever someone casually refers to “the history of civilization” in a way that does not jibe with the history of civilization as…

— Jennifer Wright

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Drugs and Alcohol, although a crutch, have been the downfall of some of our greatest authors, artists & performers. These mind altering,…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of…

— Teju Cole

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books have always been an important part of my life.

— Jasmine Guinness

“Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.”

— David Mitchell

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

— Jorge Luis Borges

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

— Rose Macaulay

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

— Larry L. King

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

— John Edgar Wideman

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

— Florence Pugh

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

— Janine di Giovanni

“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

— Gerald Scarfe

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

— Michael Rosen

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

Book so many bitches should of been a Cum Laude.

— Wale

“Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita