Books Quotes · Page 61

You can never trust what you read.

— William Goldman

Every book is a box of ideas.

— Blue Balliett

“A book, the greatest gift ever”

— R.Gayan Priyankara

“Finished, the book begins.”

— Carlos Fuentes

“if i were a book i would be so open”

— Sarah Dessen

“always enjoying reading books”

— Belal Fadl / بلال فضل

“Books, an addiction for the soul...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I don't write a novel every two years.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

What we call life is only talk of nature.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The writer is always working on a book, even when not writing.”

— Antonio Callado

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

— Keith Carradine

Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.

— Jack Hyles

“No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

— Robert Frost

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

“In the book of life the answers aren't always in the back”

— Charles Schwartz

“No person can ever be called friendless for he has the company of books.”

— I.R. Shankar

“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were. Susan Glaspell, author ”

— Susan Glaspell

“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.”

— Dan Makaon

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know,…

— Anonymous

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

— Peter R. Mansoor

“I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.”

— Tamara Faith Berger

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for…

— Celeste Ng

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

— Charles Dickens

Inspiration is God superintending human authors so that using their own individual personalities, experiences, thought processes and vocabulary they composed and recorded…

— John Macarthur

“Look at me Ethan. Am I Dark, or am I Light?' I looked at her, and I knew what she was. The…

— Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature…

— Martin Seligman

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months…

— Linda Sue Park

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“A favored bit from "A Legend of Good Men" "My mother and I each had our routines. She taught high school, took…

— David Vann

“Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took…

— Eva Ibbotson

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please…

— Jacques Barzun

To read too many books is harmful.

— Mao Zedong

“Books are Apologies from life”

— Kimoya Brown

“We have brains and we have books.”

— Adam Carolla

Painting taught literature to describe.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Never a day without a line.”

— Anonymous

All I know is what I read in the papers

— Will Rogers

The American people don't read.

— Allen Dulles

“Wait- there was a book?”

— Chuck Palahniuk