Books Quotes · Page 334

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

— George Herbert

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

— Orhan Pamuk

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

— Julia Quinn

“As an author, I'd rather by read than rich”

— K.B. Stevens

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.

— Valerie Harper

“Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart”

— Carmela Dutra

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was.”

— Nancy Horan

My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was…

— John Grisham

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

— Lee Child

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved…

— Thorne Smith

“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

— Anonymous

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

— Anonymous

I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is…

— Lionel Shriver

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“There were grandfather clocks and these things that were sort like half-grandfather clocks, and so many cuckoo clocks I suddenly felt like…

— Adam Rapp

“A Long Way from Chicago is the funniest book I have read in a while. You will enjoy the antics of Grandma…

— Robert Peck

“There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a…

— Lisa Kleypas

Jesus cries out seven times to the seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation, He who has an ear, let him…

— GODDEY WILSON

My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume…

— Joseph Brodsky

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written…

— Chuck Klosterman

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and…

— Julian Huxley

I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've…

— Michelle Gagnon

If you could read my mind, you'd be in tears.

— Anonymous

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

— Susan Griffin

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

— George W. Bush

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

— Terry Bradshaw

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

— Alin Sav

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

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

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

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

— jahangir khosravi shakib

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

— Reggie Lee

My passion for books has changed my life.

— Marley Dias

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

— Richard Donner

“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