Books Quotes · Page 114

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

You cannot open a book without learning something.

— Confucius

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

— Daniel Pinkwater

“To read, or not to read...where is the question?”

— Brenda Sloan

In the end all books are written for your friends.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

— George Harrison

What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.

— Kevin Spacey

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

— Susan Straight

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

— Thiruvalluvar

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

— Mark Twain

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

— Dave Hickey

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

— Carolina Herrera

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

— John James Audubon

“tastes and tales from Russia = I could not find the book in library or book store.”

— alla Danishavsky

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Master said the only thing more dangerous than a nigger with a gun,” he told them, “was a nigger with a book.…

— Colson Whitehead

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and…

— T. E. Lawrence

“Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual…

— Robertson Davies

If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come…

— Ben Dolnick

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the…

— Anne Enright

“Otis Grows is a kid’s book that looks at adult problems. It playfully engages us all to consider: what’s tough, what’s inherent,…

— Kathryn Hast

I read the entire 'Alias' series. I devoured them.

— Krysten Ritter

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

— Brendan Behan

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

— Donna Shalala

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Books are important. They help you sleep at night.

— Laura Bush

I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.

— Andrea Arnold

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

— Twyla Tharp

“Write and read and you shall be good to succeed.”

— Emma Coray

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

— Anonymous

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

— Lawrence Welk

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

— Kit Pearson

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“I need a Good Reading book! for a Broken Soul ;(”

— Broken Souls

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

— Karen Kingsbury

“I am a book of inspiration and precious design's”

— Martellis Thurmand