Books Quotes · Page 537

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

— Mary Nightingale

“Don’t let anyone tell you what you cannot do, Edward, not even your inner voice. "World's End", From Red Junction Book”

— Cristiana Di Palma

“I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files”

— Howard Hopkins

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up…

— Rick Riordan

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

— Alexander Skarsgard

“I'm writing the next novel in the Thanatology series, entitled the Lurking Man... Thank God for erasers.”

— Keith Rommel

“I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying…

— Connor Franta

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a…

— Orhan Pamuk

“I talk a lot about the value of lust in my book. No, don't freak out! The concept is simply about helping…

— Lebo Grand

“To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed…

— Robert Harbison

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his…

— William Cowper

“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very…

— E.M. Forster

...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…

— Franz Kafka

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an…

— Jonathan Zittrain

I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and…

— Muhammad Abduh

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

— Bergen Evans

“ Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps…

— José Borges

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

— Anonymous

Every time I've written a book, I'm like, 'Oh, it's so different from the last one. Are they going to like it?'

— Lisa Jewell

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote…

— Clive Barker

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

— Samuel Johnson

“If peace had a smell, he thought, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.”

— Mark Pryor

Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting.

— AmiT

“Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the…

— Isabelle Huppert

“that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest…

— Descartes

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

— Marlon James

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

— John Hersey

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

— Dr. Seuss

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the…

— Paul Merton

“This life is short, and you never know how many chapters you have left in your novel,”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.

— Marco Pierre White

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

— Caitlin Fitzgerald

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

— Alain de Botton

The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really…

— Jennifer Konner

“mix in your mind diet: 25 percent media, 50 percent books, and the remaining 25 percent social and workstream (offline and online).”

— Tim Sanders

“Become a lifelong learner. Read books, watch videos, listen to audio, and seek lessons for learning how to live your best life…

— Susan C. Young

“In every person there lies a book that can be enjoyed by others only by escaping through the lips or finger tips.”…

— Jim Conover