Books Quotes · Page 351

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

— Elizabeth George

“Aziraphale was an angel, but he also worshiped books.”

— Terry Pratchett

“of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt”

— Desiree Holt

I have represented people in book deals.

— Gloria Allred

A good title is the title of a successful book.

— Raymond Chandler

“If our love was a story book, we would meet on the very first page.”

— Shayne Ward

All my books center around death in some way.

— Adam Silvera

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

— Rey Mysterio

“But those who read thrillers are an impatient race. They chafe at scenic rhapsodies and want to get on to the rough…

— P.G. Wodehouse

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— Gena Showalter

“Books are doors to other dimensions, you never know where they are going to take you.”

— F. Carod

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

— Erica Jong

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

— Sherman Alexie

“An author friend of mine said, "Life is an adventure, created by God." I could not agree more. Live the adventure.”

— Sandy Nadeau

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

— Clifford Geertz

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

— Erik Larson

My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss…

— Peter Orner

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to…

— Henning Mankell

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books,…

— Henry Rollins

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that…

— Brian Tracy

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from…

— Ben Dolnick

“I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God speaks to us through books and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the…

— Lou Doillon

“You can't simply put a book down or away.”

— Rick Gekoski

Don't put on too much makeup your face is not a coloring book!

— Anonymous

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

— Toni Morrison

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

— Felicity Jones

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

— Sherman Alexie

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

— Goran Ivanisevic

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

— Michael Korda

“I love to read; I love to listen; I love to talk -- in that order.”

— C.L. Gammon

Facebook: the only book teens read these days.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

— Billy Eichner

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

— Elie Wiesel

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

— Maureen Forrester

“I’ll read anything since I’m something of a book slut.”

— Nick Pageant

“Admit it. We all need books and fairy dust once in a while.”

— Emily Jane

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

— Nancy Banks-Smith