Books Quotes · Page 357

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

— Robert E. Lee

“I have never read a book that didn’t in some way impact my life”

— jenny

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

— Alastair Reynolds

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

— William Shakespeare

I'm a huge comic book fan - me and the kids.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.”

— Marcel Proust

Everything in North Korea was about the leader, all the books, music and TV.

— Park Yeon-mi

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

— Oprah Winfrey

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

— Dorothy Parker

“Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.”

— Joe Queenan

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the…

— Terry Pratchett

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Sometimes the best books are the ones no-one has heard of and you have to dig deep to find

— Crystal D. Spears

“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find…

— John Lewis

“People often ask me if the book was emotional or difficult to write. Emotional, yes. I typed through a lot of tears.…

— Gayle Forman

I love 'The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook' by Dione Lucas. A huge source of information and inspiration. The book is organized by…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

“This book is really about the making of a great leader. In my own research and writings over many decades, I have…

— Uday Mahurkar

“I’m always astonished when readers suggest that I must write my novels while high on pot or (God forbid!) LSD. Apparently, there…

— Tom Robbins

Everyone spends so much time on social media and YouTube, all these streaming services, that people kind of forget that reading is…

— Iga Swiatek

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an…

— Julianne Moore

When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my…

— Robert Cormier

“Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Never judge a book by its cover, under a rock you might find a diamond :)

— Rachel

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

— George R. R. Martin

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

— Mason Cooley

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

— Jeff Bezos

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

— A.A. Attanasio

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

— George Herbert

“when you already get in to the book,you'll love that book”

— Nadien me

“Jesus is the Author of peace. He is God’s peacemaker (Ephesians 2:13-14).”

— Mark Hitchcock

Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

— Walt Whitman

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

— James A. Baldwin

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

— Charles Spurgeon

“The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect.”

— Don DeLillo

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

— Simon Hoggart