Books Quotes · Page 96

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

— W. H. Auden

“Books are companions even if you don't open them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

— James Balog

I think the Queen enjoyed my book on her father, George VI.

— Sarah Bradford

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

— Henry Miller

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

The worse the author, the more he is known.

— James Purdy

“~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~”

— Darke Conteur

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

— William Golding

Some boys refer to girls like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, then they won't even bother to read what's…

— Anonymous

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always…

— Jesse Ball

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

— Arthur Helps

“ Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels’ Little Instruction Book”

— Jack Canfield

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession,…

— Julian Assange

“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when…

— Mark Twain

People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a…

— David McCullough

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two…

— Deborah Meyler

“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and…

— George Orwell

“C. S. Lewis said it this way: “In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . .…

— Sarah Arthur

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense…

— Jasper Fforde

Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot…

— Sam Hamill

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

— Kami Garcia

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

— Anonymous

“Grab a book, coz reading is wound healing. - ME”

— Nadiah Alwi

“I wrote a horror novel. I put the “boo” in book.”

— Jarod Kintz

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

— Paula Fox

No one likes my books except the public.

— Mickey Spillane

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

— Gillian Flynn

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh

“We are the author of our own destruction.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

— Ben Lerner

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

— Christina, Queen of Sweden

“Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki”

— Julia Suzuki

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

— Douglas William Jerrold

“I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.”

— Beatrix Potter

“Books passed through her fingers at the speed of night.”

— Kristen Costello