Books Quotes · Page 457

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

“Why 100? If I were wrong, one would have been enough. [In response to the book "Hundred Authors Against Einstein"]”

— Albert Einstein

“I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.”

— Gillian Flynn

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the…

— Mark Haddon

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

— Walter Gilbert

“The truth of the matter was no boy I knew lived up to the fantasy I’d created from the many books I’d…

— Natasha Boyd

“Now your not known author, once you die you gonna be famous. But the question is with what? WITH BAD OR GOOD?”

— Deyth Banger

Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their…

— Nick Tosches

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them.…

— Marcel Proust

I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political…

— Angela Alioto

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least…

— Mary Karr

Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that…

— D. A. Carson

Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that…

— Scott Bradfield

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common…

— LeVar Burton

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book…

— A. S. Byatt

I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

— Colson Whitehead

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it…

— David Sedaris

“The purpose of the report is to place the reader figuratively in the setting, and to help the reader experience the situation…

— Gjoko Muratovski

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

— Edward Abbey

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened…

— Helen Hayes

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

— Terry Riley

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of…

— Mister Lemur

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

— Vikram Seth

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

— Markus Zusak

“A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances.”

— Conrad Brasso

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

— Jay Asher

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

— Alberto Manguel

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

— Edward Coke

“On those trains you’ll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.”

— Meg Cabot

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of…

— Kwame Nkrumah

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

— Tom Peters

And so we can conclude that the reader's imagination is better than that of the director's.

— Innah Delos Angeles

If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a…

— Charles Manson

“I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist?”

— Kaya Carvajal

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Watching Beauty and the Beast eating sliced apples and bananas in bed with my coloring books and crayons by my side. I'm 5.

— Sarah Hyland

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld