Books Quotes · Page 429

I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.

— Sacha Dhawan

“Do not ask intelligent rich people what car they driver, but what books they read.”

— Alin Sav

“How'd you get this number?" "Well, you see, there's this book. It has white pages. And it has all these phone numbers…

— Stephanie Perkins

“I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.”…

— Christopher Isherwood

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

— Whoopi Goldberg

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always…

— Earl Sweatshirt

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

— Virginia Hamilton

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip…

— Jim Davis

“A well-read highwayman, who would have thought?” the dowager commented. “Oh, he absolutely adores books. He plans to retire when he has…

— Anya Wylde

“Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college…

— David Pietrusza

“Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in…

— George Eliot

“I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could…

— Jason Diamond

“It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said,…

— Donald E. Westlake

“In life, we are all on the same journey, we are all struggling to get from point A to point B. Different…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I…

— Elinor Lipman

“Your days are like pages, the chapters unread. You have to keep turning your book has no end.”

— John Steinbeck

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

— George Henry Lewes

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

— Helene Hanff

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it,…

— Len Wein

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

— Chris Crutcher

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

— Anna Paquin

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

— Deborah Reber

“The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and…

— Kelly Moran

“My books are my staple diet. As serious as insulin doses for those who are diabetics!”

— Hlovate

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I…

— Elizabeth Strout

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

— Cathleen Schine

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

— Stephen King

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

— Ray Bradbury

“This is not a book of writing advice. It’s not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it’s here to…

— Chuck Wendig

“Buy printed books because you save real thoughts of writers. Content of digital books can be changed easy if it is needed.”

— Ekaterina Yakovina

“But there was one revelation that came out od TXT4sex. And it was this: any idiot can write a book. So that…

— Morgan Parker

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

— Mary Roach

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

— Anonymous

“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Umit did not allow the books to read him. Nor did he allow the books to dictate his thoughts.”

— Raj Doctor

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

— John Burroughs