Books Quotes · Page 496

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

— Pete Sampras

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

“Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

— Alexander Pope

“Readers of fantasy fiction actually imagine having the abilities of the villains more often then the protagonist. Bravo writers!”

— C. Toni Graham

I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.

— Robert Kazinsky

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much…

— Virginia Postrel

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of…

— George Orwell

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also…

— Rumaan Alam

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back…

— Roland Smith

Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability…

— Tom Lehrer

Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the…

— Vivian Gornick

“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of…

— Abhijit Naskar

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

— Caroline Wozniacki

Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some happy and some very exciting. But if you never turn the page,…

— Anonymous

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

— Tim Tharp

Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

— Josiah Bartlett

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

— Arthur Smith

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while

— Janet Evanovich

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;;they are the most accessable and wisest of counselore, and the most patient teachers.”

— Anonymous

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never judge a book by its cover, just because you read it before doesn't mean it hasn't been rewritten.

— Anonymous

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

— Pat Conroy

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

— Thomas Sydenham

“I’m not difficult,” Violet said. “I’m simple. I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.”

— Courtney Milan

“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is…

— Ray Bradbury

“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…”

— Vincent Starrett

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I seriously have to stop reading more than one book at a time, i feel like i'm making no progress at all.”

— Emma Brighton

“Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...”

— Michael Finkel

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

— Zadie Smith

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

— Doris Lessing

It seems to be the way I get jobs - I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the…

— Margot Robbie

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does…

— Chris Van Allsburg

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five”

— Charles Dickens

“Just because the book has sex in it doesn’t mean women are only reading it for the sexy bits.”

— Jenny Trout