Books Quotes · Page 93

“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”

— Richard Smyth

“Never read the comments, she reminded herself. The”

— Sarah Title

I read a lot of Greek mythology and thrillers.

— Akshara Haasan

“Read it first, then tell me it’s cool.”

— Neil Gaiman

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

— Tessa Jowell

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

— Lewis Carroll

“Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

— Katie Leclerc

“Clearly being an author drove otherwise normal people mad. Especially when combined with Facebook.”

— Emma Jameson

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it…

— Terry Pratchett

“Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar.”

— R.L. Stoll

I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.

— Fiona Barton

“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a…

— Anne Brontë

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

— Julian Barnes

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's…

— Thomas Pynchon

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to…

— Bernard Malamud

“The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the…

— H.G. Wells

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All…

— Sarah Dessen

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of…

— Gunter Grass

Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand…

— Alice Meynell

“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. Books are different from…

— John Durham Peters

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a…

— Nicole Anderson

“Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems…

— Caitlin Horrocks

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature…

— James Cameron

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

— Donalyn Miller

“Maybe, just maybe, a reader would feel a little less alone in the world.”

— Lisa Schroeder

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.”

— E. Millicent Sowerby

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.

— Max Lucado

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

— Gus Kenworthy

I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

— Zara Cox

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka

“Old soldiers never die, they write novels.”

— James Jones

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

— Anonymous

“i am so excited about these books i cant wait to read these books.”

— Anonymous

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

— Edward Abbey

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

— Carlene Carter

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

— Lloyd Alexander

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

— William Goldman

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos