Books Quotes · Page 39

Songs are more powerful than books.

— Elvis Costello

I told my whole life story in my book.

— Heather Mills

I am a geek. I am always in books.

— Raashi Khanna

“Buku = Obat mati gaya paling ampuh!”

— Sylvia L'Namira

great books are the ones we need

— Charles Bukowski

Wrote the book on pain.

— Shinedown

I finished 1,100 books in six weeks.

— Shannon Bream

My books are so tame!

— Sarah Dessen

“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

— Orson Welles

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

— Bill Gates

“A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book.”

— Jenny Han

“If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.”

— William Muller

They liked the book better the more it made them cry.

— Oliver Goldsmith

That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.

— Jamie Hewlett

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

— Anonymous

Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s.

— Atul Kulkarni

“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the…

— Peggy Randall-Martin

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who…

— Marie Rutkoski

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

— Anne Fadiman

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it…

— Vivian Gornick

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

— W. Averell Harriman

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand…

— Felix Adler

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of…

— Anna Quindlen

“The books, always the books. And for themselves, not to become rich or famous like sensible people. Are we not foolish? But…

— Ward Moore

“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now everything has changed Stephen King reads…

— Deyth Banger

There are always people screeching and upset that I did this or didn't do that. Basically, they're upset that I didn't rewrite…

— Diana Gabaldon

All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut…

— Sri Aurobindo

“You talk like a book.”

— Vladmir Nabokov

Leaders use story to author the future.

— Robert McKee

History! Read it and weep!

— Kurt Vonnegut

I read to my kids every night.

— Edge

One must always be careful of books,

— Cassandra Clare

“A reader lives a thousand lives.”

— George R.R. Martin

A book is not completed till it's read.

— Salman Rushdie

“The book is a key to open the human”

— Yanis Yingnan JI