Books Quotes · Page 113

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

— Madame de Stael

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

“Just as we are what we eat, we are what we read.”

— Jason Merkoski

“Why read? Because we are given more than we are.”

— James V. Schall

“a place to throw down a blanket and read a book.”

— Joe Hill

“Happiness is a letter from your favorite author!”

— Gayathri

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

— Constance Zimmer

It's really hard to learn songwriting from a book.

— Olivia Rodrigo

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

— Kate DiCamillo

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

— Guillaume Musso

“The words in his book wormed off the pages. Everything glittered like blank paper.”

— Sylvia Plath

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

— Duane Michals

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

— Hilaire Belloc

Sturmhond, a privateer from the second book in the series, Siege and Storm,' is probably my favorite character. He's pure confidence and…

— Leigh Bardugo

“This is no book; Who touches this, touches a man; (Is it night? Are we here alone?) It is I you hold,…

— Walt Whitman

“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a…

— Carl Henegan

Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books.…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

“The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in…

— Italo Calvino

I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well...…

— Lee Bermejo

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that…

— Joseph Epstein

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different…

— Neil Gaiman

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

— Mortimer Adler

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.”

— Happyhungrypets

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

— Henry Miller

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

— Jodi Picoult

“He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.”

— Kristine Grayson

“A book is a present you can open again and again”

— I D Hendry

“We encounter great souls by reading great books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Happiness is.. reading a novel with your Bestie.”

— Vikrmn

“Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.”

— Paul Auster

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

— Katie Price

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

— James Howell

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

— Grace Slick

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

— Richard Ford