Books Quotes · Page 89

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

You remind me of a library book, because I always want to check you out.

— Anonymous

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".

— Rose Tremain

I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

— James Galway

Did. Your. Voice. Pause. When. You. Read. This?

— KAriana

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

— Dr. Seuss

I'm giving you a longing look ... everyday I write the book.

— Anonymous

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

— Erica Mena

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

— Alvin Lee

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it…

— Winston Churchill

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

— Marquis de Sade

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for…

— Anonymous

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

— Pierre Salinger

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

There are some dark days when I do receive some racist mail or emails. But overall the response to me has been…

— Michelle Singletary

“The books still weren’t real, but maybe they were written about city women, television women, Yankee women—just about as strange as Zeus…

— Dorothy Allison

For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had…

— Lisa Jewell

I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who…

— Adrienne Rich

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I…

— Randy Bachman

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things…

— Peter Singer

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired…

— Nat Turner

Photography is like an open book to the world.

— Lisa Jones

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

— Matthew Pearl

“First they burn the books, and then the bodies follow”

— Kane X. Faucher

“Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.”

— Paul Valéry

All those big words produce disgust today.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

— John Boyne

“A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?”

— Mary Papas

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

— Jeffery Deaver

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

— Alexander Pope

“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

— P. D. James

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

— John C. Maxwell

“My book shelf is never empty because an empty one would steal my imagination.”

— Laurie Bowler