Books Quotes · Page 69

I am a part of all I have read.

— Anonymous

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

— Willis Regier

When I read books, my life changes.

— Pooja Bedi

“I was always, luckily, only a reader.”

— Josef Škvorecký

Signori has all the tricks up his book.

— Ray Wilkins

I only know what I read in the papers.

— Pat Nixon

Read like a wolf eats.

— Gary Paulsen

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

— John Green

“My life is a book, a new chapter - a new day”

— Mary Jane

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

— Sonia Rykiel

' If you think reading is BORING, than your doing it WRONG!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

— Janet Fitch

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

— Pico Iyer

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

— Milan Kundera

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

— Katha Pollitt

“I'll save you some time...if I didn't rate all my books asa 5 stars, I bloody well wouldn't have written them!!”

— John W. Cassell

“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.”

— Jennifer Niven

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of…

— Alan Alda

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've…

— Nina Bawden

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

— Eric Weiner

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

— Eleanor Catton

I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind…

— Maeve Binchy

The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the…

— H. E. Bates

“Having lost his mother, father, brother, an grandfather, the friends and foes of his youth, his beloved teacher Bernard Kornblum, his city,…

— Michael Chabon

“Decade's reading had justified his guess that men and women perceive love identically save for, say, five percent. Reading books by men…

— Annie Dillard

To play this iconic character from this historically wonderful series of books - who wouldn't take that opportunity and be happy about…

— Kristian Nairn

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way…

— Gayl Jones

“Perhaps the best way to understand the book of Revelation is that it is a prophetic critique of civil religion. By civil…

— Brian Zahnd

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.…

— Glenn Ligon

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in…

— Nancy Werlin

“To read is to renew thy mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My books are easy to read. No folderol.

— Clive Cussler

“Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?”

— Charles Frazier

Never judge a book by its cover!!!!!

— Anonymous

“She wrote books—and she was happy.”

— Veda Bardot

“Read my book and you shall know thee”

— Oscar Sanders

“All readers have reading in common.”

— Will Schwalbe

I would rather be dead than not read

— Annie Proulx