Books Quotes · Page 373

Life is like chapters in a book.. We can't erase what has been already written but we can write a better ending…

— Abhishek Tiwari

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

— Jo Walton

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

— Amy Dickinson

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

— John Milton

“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not…

— Alan Bennett

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you…

— Helene Hanff

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

— Sam Levenson

“Thoughtlessness” was the crime of which Arendt found Eichmann guilty in her book, and some of her finest late essays and lectures…

— Anne Heller

“She breathed deeply and smelled water-logged books, the perfume of rotting cardboard and paper that had dried beneath the furnace of the…

— Joe Hill

I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I…

— Sophie Divry

“Even light comedy should be well motivated. It’s foolish to assume that a shorter book needs any less attention in the GMC…

— Debra Dixon

“Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them…

— John Connolly

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely…

— Anonymous

Unless you count the political backdrop, which in any case is a familiar one to many international readers, I don't think there's…

— Adam Morris

“We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual…

— M.R. Mathias

“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.”

— Muhammad Tabish

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you…

— Idries Shah

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for…

— Jim Jarmusch

“Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the…

— Ray Bradbury

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within…

— Swami Vivekananda

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

— Hilary Mantel

“It doesn't matter how many copies of my book I sell. The important thing is that the person reading it likes it.”

— Jennifer Raygoza

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

— Stephen Kinzer

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and…

— Northrop Frye

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

— Kaye Gibbons

“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books…

— Edward Abbey

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

— Margaret Forster

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

— Tim Ferriss

“Enjoy Colleen Hoover’s first two New York Times bestselling books, Slammed and Point of Retreat, and become”

— Colleen Hoover

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together”

— Margaret Truman

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take…

— Cornelia Funke

This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring…

— Jeffrey K. Zeig

“I loved books—not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the…

— Laurelin Paige

“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence.”

— John Alfred Langford