Books Quotes · Page 610

“The only way to really know whether or not you will like a book, is to read it.”

— John Campedelli

''The Bible a book with too many rules and less love then it actually describes.''

— Jeremy Limn

“If I, and this book, have anything to prove, it’s that when you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you,…

— Sophia Amoruso

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

— Tahir Shah

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

— Jesse Ventura

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

— Russell M. Nelson

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart…

— Allen Tate

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,…

— Anonymous

I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now…

— Elvis Costello

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and…

— August Wilson

There was a Ta-Nehisi Coates book called 'Between the World and Me' that I read the prologue, and I was so decimated…

— Colman Domingo

The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and…

— Theodora Goss

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I…

— Joe Simon

“To enter into the prayer of this book is not merely to share the sentiments of King David, or Asaph, or one…

— Patrick Henry Reardon

“Uncle alone in the house with the children said he'd dress up to amuse them. After a long wait, as he did…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French. That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road.…

— David Adams Richards

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

— Christopher Moore

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books…

— Russell Banks

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

— Madeleine Albright

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

— Nawal El Saadawi

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

— Sara Maitland

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

— Irwin Shaw

Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.

— Jessica Lange

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that…

— Avi

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

— Tomi Lahren

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just…

— Wole Soyinka

“I hope this book shows that no matter what struggles you may face, anything is possible. I am living proof of that.”

— Tim Mettey

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.”

— Augusta Scattergood

“199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed In) for Under $1000 by Tyler Hicks. Books”

— Margaret Lobenstine

“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.”

— Neil Young

“Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.”

— Chloe Thurlow

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in…

— Madeleine Albright

“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know,…

— Anonymous

“If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them”

— Justyn Simon

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own…

— Ashwin Sanghi