Books Quotes · Page 67

Beware of the person of one book.

— Thomas Aquinas

“Make books your friends!”

— Yehuda Ben Tibbon

Books are embalmed minds.

— Anonymous

My policy is to not read any reviews.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I have no talents but reading. I”

— Michael Helm

“Life is a book. We fill the pages.”

— Victoria Valentine

To learn to read is to light a fire.

— Victor Hugo

“He read himself silly!”

— Dostoevsky, Fyodor

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

— Ranbir Kapoor

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

— Jeff Kinney

“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

— Daphne Kalotay

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

— Beverly Cleary

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Writing a novel is like having a dream.”

— Haruki Murakami

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Reading is reading - no matter what the material.”

— Giovanna Fletcher

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

— Diane Setterfield

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

— John Boyne

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

— Sara Paretsky

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my…

— David Eddings

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely,…

— John Fowles

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

— James Thurber

“There is no success of a nation that does not devote its literature to serve its affair. Does the awaited "reformation era"…

— Ali Al-Tantawi

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and…

— Jimenez Lai

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is…

— Henry Seidel Canby

I'm very lucky that I started out as a reader of the comic book and a viewer of the show. And I…

— Scott M. Gimple

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours…

— Maurice Sendak

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally…

— Milan Kundera

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted…

— Carl Sagan

“I want to use this book as a vehicle to help you develop enough wealth- both physical and emotional- so that you…

— Tony Robbins

“Music and books, food for the soul!”

— José Luis Braga

I never learned to read music.

— Norman Spinrad

[Science is] the literature of truth.

— Josh Billings

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

— J. D. Salinger

“Every reader his [or her] book.”

— S. R. Ranganathan

Good readers make much out of little.

— Irving Howe

“Laws die. Books never.”

— Anonymous

“You can't write a book in Heaven”

— Don Newman