Books Quotes · Page 343

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

— Alison Lurie

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

— E. O. Wilson

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

— John Wesley

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

— Mitt Romney

“Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.”

— H.B. Bolton

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

— Sholem Asch

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

— Macaulay Culkin

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact…

— Errol Morris

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence…

— Carl Hiaasen

“Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the…

— Stephen Amidon

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no…

— William Shakespeare

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

— George W. Bush

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.

— Charlaine Harris

You see one scene shot 25 times in one day, which is totally fascinating, but while you're watching it, you're remembering, 'This…

— Diana Gabaldon

“For after all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brillant scholars, or have been written…

— Helene Lapaire Justus

A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime…

— Peter James

“There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or…

— Courtney Summers

Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like…

— Mo Willems

“A recent book by University of Chicago professor of philosophy and law Brian Leiter outlines what I believe will become the theoretical…

— Anonymous

My questions did surprise some people. Others didn't bat an eye. That happens with all my books - I'll read them in…

— Laurie Keller

I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in…

— Ann Patchett

“Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel”

— Marie Corelli

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

— Lisa Jewell

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

— Jason Ellis

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

— Truman Capote

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

— Holbrook Jackson

I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

— Kid Rock

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

— Frank McCourt

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

— Anonymous

“Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt…but do read...”

— Rabindranath Tagore

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

— Kurt Cobain

“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.”

— Sandhya Menon

Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts

— Kevin Knight

Of course YA authors have a responsibility to their audience.

— Rebecca Serle

“The Zoe is the book you’ve been writing in. It means “life” in Greek.”

— Nicole Gulla

Reading a book. It's like a Kindle, for idiots.

— Anonymous