Books Quotes · Page 589

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [ Inside Out (VH1)]”

— Warren Zevon

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

— Don DeLillo

Learned to love the fact recognized in the books seems to be only good things, O world, we capture the essence of…

— Mak_786

“If you're a college student, the equivalent of a weeks reading for classes, can be about the same amount of a book.…

— Tiffany Acevedo

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used…

— Alexander Theroux

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but…

— Diana Ross

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

— Ibrahim Babangida

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I…

— Chris Van Allsburg

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack…

— Pliny the Younger

I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned…

— Carolyn Porco

“Economists at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services are the authors of the straightforwardly titled “How Increasing Inequality is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth,…

— Anonymous

But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or…

— James Vance

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...but also give him quiet time to ponder to eternal mystery of birds in…

— Abe Lincoln

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of…

— John Hume

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on…

— Toni Morrison

Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important…

— Tom Cavanagh

“I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.”

— K.M. Walton

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like…

— Ann Patchett

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

— Anonymous

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

— Philip Schaff

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

— Nick Vujicic

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with…

— Jeanette Winterson

“You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price.”

— Amy Clipston

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

— Hope Jahren

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

— Anonymous

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

— Pieter Geyl

Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

— Soren Kierkegaard

All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in…

— Peter Heller

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

— Narendra Modi

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be…

— Anonymous

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

— Lisa Morton

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much…

— Orhan Pamuk

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.

— Frank Deford

“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.”

— Bertrand Russell

“She didn't know how long they stared at each other, but the look on his face made her forget about the book.”

— Sasha Summers

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is…

— Bell Hooks