Books Quotes · Page 370

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when…

— Elaine Pagels

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

— Thomas Hardy

When I was a UA student, I was given the ultimate runaround when my student group wanted to bring author and activist…

— Katie Pavlich

“Washington read”: the act of telling someone, “I didn’t read your book but did praise it on TV.”)”

— Mark Leibovich

Were the purportings of the Bible to be a revelation false, it would still be the truest book that was ever written.

— Augustus William Hare

“I was convinced (still I am, in fact) that there's no such thing as a novel, astonishing or not, without a penis.”

— Steven Cooper

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all…

— Jody Lynn Nye

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying…

— Douglas Florian

I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual,…

— David Toop

I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is…

— Jim Crace

I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to…

— Meghan McCain

I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's…

— Robert Pattinson

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight…

— Jeff Kinney

“When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading…

— Mareez Reyes

Despite her apparent freedom, her life consisted of endless hours spent waiting for a miracle, for true love, for an adventure with…

— Paulo Coelho

I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion.

— Nathan Englander

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Mark Twain

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

— Samuel Johnson

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

— Nelson Mandela

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and…

— Polly Toynbee

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's…

— Sean Bean

“Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”

— Cornelia Funke

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the…

— MS Dhoni

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly…

— Sarah Hall

“you enjoyed this book, then I’d like to ask you for a favour, would you be kind enough to leave”

— Dwayne Brown

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how…

— Beverly Cleary

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

— Josh Lanyon

“I’m not trying to evoke emotions in the reader. My job is to bring about an understanding through pictures.”

— Michael Siegel

To read a piece of material from a period drama told from the woman's perspective is just so unique.

— Jodie Comer

“Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.”

— Robert Mailer Anderson

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey…

— Joyce Meyer

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of…

— H. L. Mencken

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

— Mayte Garcia

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

— Catherynne M. Valente

When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

— Hilary Mantel