Books Quotes · Page 411

“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

— Lafcadio Hearn

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

— Christopher Bollen

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in…

— Hattie McDaniel

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is…

— Alan Lightman

Beauty is nothing if u have a rotten attitude and personality from the inside. So don't pretend that u are book with…

— Abhishek Tiwari

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

— Jane Austen

“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.”

— Kate Morton

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense…

— Jeremy Denk

“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again,…

— Lavie Tidhar

“For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and…

— Diane Setterfield

Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anyway. If…

— Katie Price

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own…

— Louis L'Amour

“She was a fairy-tale princess out of his comic book fantasies. She glowed like a star. He hated it. It made his…

— Shannon McKenna

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I thought about the people I had met who were in pain but were pretending that everything was fine. And I thought,…

— Julie Schumacher

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

— Stephen King

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

— Bruno Tonioli

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

— Meg Rosoff

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

— John Wesley Harding

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway”

— William Faulkner

“This book is not anti-meditation. It just offers another set of ways into mindful awareness that may be more practical, useful, and…

— Shea Matthew Fisher

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

— Matthew Henry

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

— Charlaine Harris

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on…

— Ann Rule

“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”

— Robert Byrne

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

— Nicolas Roeg

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering…

— Robert Klein

Please teach me, I want to learn. You cant learn how to love from books and please help me because that person…

— Anonymous

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we…

— Max Muller

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog…

— Craig Ferguson

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

— Lois Lowry

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them…

— Chris Brown

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

— Andrew Latimer

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature…

— Katherine Paterson

“Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.”

— Sophie Kinsella

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not…

— Franz Kafka

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

— Jeffrey Archer

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness…

— Carolyn See

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

— Jean Rhys