Books Quotes · Page 90

“Maybe we were the Diggers of literature.”

— Wallace Stegner

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

— Donna Tartt

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”

— James Burke

'Classic'- A book in which people praise but do not read.

— Mark Twain

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

— Rick Ross

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

— Mortimer Adler

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.

— Charles Nodier

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

— Harold Bloom

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it…

— Percy Lubbock

“Burn the book. It serves you once. Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime. Lend the book. It serves for generations…

— Kowtham Kumar K

“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”

— Anonymous

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

— Elin Hilderbrand

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?”

— Lewis Carroll

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite…

— Lev Grossman

I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert…

— Mark Helprin

“Richardson, however, remains a vital figure in the history of the novel, and of ideology. He initiates a discourse on sexual roles…

— Ronald Carter

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and…

— Ayn Rand

“You have everything within you to do great things in this world. Maybe, you are inspired to sing a song, write a…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –…

— Peter Abbs

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be…

— Clifton Fadiman

I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so…

— Sylvain White

“That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Stress is a disease that can deteriorate the brain. Cure; Read, Garden, Swim.”

— Jennifer Collins

“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.”

— Russell Lynes

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

— David Swing

I read a lot of lot non-demanding fiction.

— Dave Barry

You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't.

— Sheryl Lee

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

“I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“Mommy. Do you ever wish a book will never end?”

— Angela D'Ambrosio

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Nothing is impossible to gods and authors.”

— Will Durant

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

— Herman Wouk

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

— Victor Hugo

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

— William Maxwell

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

— Salman Rushdie

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

— Phil Ochs

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne