Books Quotes · Page 412

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

— Leigh Hunt

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader…

— Christopher Bollen

“Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.”

— Larry McCaffery

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling.…

— Anatole Broyard

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

— Anonymous

“My books are friends that never fail me." ( Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle ; 17 March 1817)”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down…

— Arthur Machen

In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying…

— Alfred Doblin

Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our…

— Lloyd Alexander

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now,…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her…

— Jefferson Mays

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny,…

— Emma Donoghue

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read…

— D. V. Ager

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem.…

— James Dickey

“You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.”

— Jim Butcher

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the…

— Jessa Crispin

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

— Jeremy Robinson

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that…

— John Guare

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

— Rupi Kaur

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

— Lynn Austin

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

— Barbara Kingsolver

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm…

— Becky Albertalli

Life is like a book, each chapter is a new challenge, and in the end it's a new life

— Neil

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.

— Alexander Pope

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the…

— Lisa Unger

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Facebook is like a book, flip 1 one page your at the status flip 2, your at the wall.

— MT Quoets

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

— Jon Scieszka

“The best lessons are often taught by the worst experiences; focus on the message and not the author.”

— Gaberiel, Oris Smith

I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with not getting into trouble.

— Emma Watson

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading…

— Robertson Davies

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

— Alice Hoffman