Books Quotes · Page 103

Children's books are by nature partisan.

— Eric Walters

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

— Tayari Jones

“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”

— James Turner

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

— Cecelia Ahern

“Films are for Fridays, books are forever.”

— Piyush Jha

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

— Louise Rosenblatt

For you, I was a chapter.. For me, you were the whole book...

— Anonymous

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

— Adriana Trigiani

“Illegal' takes on a whole new meaning when you're loaded like Barnes. The rich have a separate rule book. To them if…

— Jeffrey Ford

“Aubrey didn't know what to think of this. People came here for books. Or, in Ben's case, to drive her crazy.”

— Jill Shalvis

“No one knows the scent of books, or the scent of perfume, until someone opens them.”

— Omaid Ahmadzai

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity…

— Ian Mcewan

“Like a book that’s never read, the emotions are lost unless given weight and breath and voice.”

— Emma Scott

“the best stories are the ones that leave the reader better than they were. And the best of those nurture both our…

— A.G. Riddle

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow…

— Jeff Phillips

Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because…

— Rick Riordan

...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make…

— Tim Dorsey

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than…

— Gabrielle Zevin

People would go from village to village with their books in a time of poverty and disease. They would get people around…

— Lexi Alexander

Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed…

— Alex Haley

I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate…

— Jan Clausen

“When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you…

— Sarah Ruhl

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

— Milan Kundera

The answer is the Savior who is the source and author of peace.

— Quentin L. Cook

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

— Anonymous

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

— Anne Frank

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..

— Charles Baudelaire

“People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.”

— Millicent Ashby

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

— Oscar Wilde

“You are the best book you could ever write phi”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel”

— Carl Henegan

“Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.”

— Nicholas Tucker

“Hurried reading can never be good reading”

— G. J. Goschen

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

— Frederick Busch

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

— Kara Hayward

The game itself is bigger than the winning.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful.”

— Anonymous