Books Quotes · Page 505

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.”

— Michael Wolff

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves...far distant in time...speaking to us, mind to mind, heart…

— Gilbert Highet

If Im honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all.

— Bubbly

My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every…

— Rutger Bregman

If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.”

— Nora Roberts

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

— Robert Munsch

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical…

— Robin Morgan

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the…

— Ezra Pound

I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live…

— Anjan Sundaram

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking…

— Ian Rankin

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that…

— Tibor Fischer

I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will…

— Miroslav Penkov

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.”

— Steven Wright

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When the 'Book of Mormon' was first published, some of those who believed in it taught it to others and testified of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

— Dario Fo

“If there is one lesson you take from this entire book please let it be to pay attention to these feelings.”

— Melissa Wells

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

— Cecil B. DeMille

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

— Beatrice Sparks

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's…

— Emma Goldman

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

— Victoria Chang

“I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.”

— Kaaron Warren

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic…

— William Gurstelle

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

— Gordon Bell

“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.”

— Garrett Leigh

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

— Maurice Sendak

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

— Liza Campbell

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

— Anupam Kher

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the…

— Haruki Murakami

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books…

— Amber Benson

I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write…

— Mary Kay Andrews

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

— Cyril Connolly

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that…

— Patrick Rothfuss