Books Quotes · Page 425

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

— Irving Stone

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the…

— Kate Adie

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

— Norman Reedus

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

— David Dunn

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one…

— Amor Towles

“One of my hobbies is reading finance and economic books—at the strip club, where I “invest” my money.”

— Jarod Kintz

“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not…

— John Hodgman

The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context,…

— Rob Bell

“...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at…

— Richard Russo

My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on…

— Neal Stephenson

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a…

— Jacques Derrida

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in…

— Isabel Allende

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a…

— Robert Gottlieb

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

— Nora Roberts

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

— Jean Craighead George

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.

— Reggie Lee

I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think.

— Hilton Als

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

“To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.”

— Bernhard Schlink

“Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".”

— David L. Cohn

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

— Gustave Flaubert

Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books.

— Andrew Guzaldo

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and…

— David Goggins

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

— Thea Astley

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

— Dave Barry

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

— Howard Jacobson

I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited…

— Ella Woodward

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of…

— Michael Connelly

We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

— Jonathan Swift

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the…

— William Faulkner

I do think there is continuing sense in people buying recipe books from somebody they trust.

— Rick Stein

“Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.”

— Danny Tyran

“Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life.…

— Sophie Divry

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the…

— V. S. Naipaul

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley