Books Quotes · Page 354

Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?

— Matt Chandler

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

— Arundhati Roy

I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness.

— Torrey Peters

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

— Joe Manganiello

“If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.”

— Mark Twain

Books are the training weights of the mind.

— Epictetus

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

— Tim O'Reilly

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

— Etel Adnan

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

— Jim Woodring

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;…

— Lewis Buzbee

I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature.

— Tanikella Bharani

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

— Jennifer Stone

I wish I could walk through a picture window and the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!”

— Avijeet Das

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

— Emile M. Cioran

I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume…

— Lawrence Osborne

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure…

— Deb Caletti

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down…

— Gore Vidal

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as…

— Theodora Goss

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed…

— Marjane Satrapi

For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not,…

— Kate Morton

“Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the…

— Carl Sagan

“Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.”

— Rose Christo

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

— Garrison Keillor

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

— Franz Kafka

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

— Dinaw Mengestu

Books are not like people. Books are safe.

— Kathryn Erskine

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

— David Morrell

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

— William Golding

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Books then. Books now. Occasionally life. —Nancy Pearl”

— Rachel Fershleiser

Young readers can sense when you're not addressing what's actually going on.

— Sabaa Tahir

You can never, never have too many books

— Drew Barrymore

I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.

— Jim Lee

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

— A. Scott Berg

“like to ask you for one small favor. If you liked my book”

— Anonymous

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

— Michel de Montaigne