Books Quotes · Page 107

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

“I’d rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places…

— Caroline George

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion

I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals…

— Marie Kondo

I was on holiday in Ibiza, having a lovely time, writing a book and looking at the stars every night and generally…

— Ben Miller

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to…

— Nicholas Wade

“In the Novel He described her mouth as full of ashes. So when he kissed her finally he was thinking about ashes…

— Susan Stewart

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

— Anonymous

I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to…

— John D'Agata

The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as…

— Morgan Parker

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

— Mason Cooley

“When you read a book, book also reads you! The book will know who you are from the sentences you underline!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Anywho can help me understand dafuq was wrong when YOU GAVE EVERYTHING then SHE left without closing our BOOK.

— Mousse

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

— Bertrand Russell

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

— Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

— David Mitchell

“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.”

— R. Curtis Venture

“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.”

— Margarita Engle

Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt…

— Deborah Moggach

“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a…

— Max Barry

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

— Stephen Colbert

My Wings are a thousand books.

— Gill Robb Wilson

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books…

— Jeanette Winterson

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

— Lin Yutang

“As recounted in his book It’s Your Ship, one of Captain Abrashoff’s first moves was to interview every one of the 310…

— Chip Heath

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

— A. J. Jacobs

We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms,…

— Malcolm Knowles

“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water,…

— Nick Flynn

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures…

— Kim Hyesoon

“I'll read it off, straight out of the book. Come, Almanack! To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram— lecherous dog, he begets…

— Herman Melville

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict…

— Rob Brezsny

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Sometimes the most obvious solution also happens to be the right one: after all, life isn't a novel.”

— Maurizio de Giovanni

I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my…

— Charles Forsman

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." [ The Sick Chamber ( The…

— William Hazlitt

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

— Pierre Berton

“We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual…

— M.R. Mathias

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy…

— Edward Abbey

“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going…

— Kurt Vonnegut