Books Quotes · Page 17

“A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map.” - Kirkus Reviews”

— Milena Banks

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

— Eden Robinson

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

— Wes Smith

I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations,…

— Liv Ullmann

Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll…

— Kim Kardashian

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo.…

— John Irving

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to…

— Gary Shteyngart

“I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can't think of a…

— Otis Y. Chandler

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written…

— Bill Vaughan

“Izzy was sitting cross-legged on the couch, a paper-back book in her hands. She didn’t look up when we came in, and…

— Rachel Hawkins

“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was…

— Jami Attenberg

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

— Elie Wiesel

When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one.

— Eoin Macken

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as…

— Alberto Manguel

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him…

— Eric McCormack

“There was something sexy as hell about us well read book sluts.”

— Haylie Harbour

I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being…

— Lauren Graham

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday…

— Maya Angelou

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so…

— Richard Curtis

I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows…

— Kim Young-ha

“The first book to use the term ‘science fiction’ in the title was also a vintage paperback, an anthology called The Pocket…

— Pradeep Sebastian

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even…

— James Richardson

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

— Garrison Keillor

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie