Books Quotes · Page 361

“Information that a book possesses is made of time”

— Sunday Adelaja

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

— Mark Haddon

“I am a book of inspiration and precious design's”

— Martellis Thurmand

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

— Gabrielle Zevin

Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Nobody wants to read about your life. Who cares?

— David Spade

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

— Anonymous

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

— Harry S. Truman

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

— Greg Ginn

“The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.”

— Ivan Stoikov - Allan Bard

There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online.

— Ryan North

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

— Nathan Lowell

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the…

— Dua Lipa

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the…

— Arthur Keith

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!

— Gretchen Rubin

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I…

— Rutger Bregman

I love the Hunger Games books. Certainly, the fans are there. They're grown enormously since the beginning. When I first brought the…

— Nina Jacobson

I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Like metals, myths too get recycled. Reworked and so richly embellished as to be almost unrecognisable, stories which may once have reflected…

— John Keay

There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise…

— Nicholson Baker

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,…

— Robert Hughes

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens…

— Leif Enger

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book…

— Anne Lamott

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

— Samuel Johnson

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

“People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there”

— Alisa Hope Wagner

“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

— Timothy Keller

“Hi guys the book Im reading right this moment is called Uglies”

— Scott Westerfeld

“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.”

— M. Kirin

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

— Amos Oz

“Reading books exposeses you to different lives”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Books marketing has moved from the review culture to a preview culture.

— Ravi Subramanian

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

— Maurice Sendak

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

— Jim Harrison

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

— Brendan Behan

Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.

— Steven Tyler

To me, making a CD is like writing a book.

— Johnny Van Zant