Books Quotes · Page 105

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

— John Cleese

I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.

— John Updike

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

— Toyohiko Kagawa

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

— Grenville Kleiser

“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.”

— Leslie Austin

“Reading this chapter is optional but as you’ve read it you’ve read it.”

— Gao Xingjian

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

— Randy Alcorn

“Are you the man who reads phone books?”

— Thomas Pynchon

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to…

— Bill Gates

I love going through fashion magazines, love to read - Paulo Coelho is my favourite author.

— Ayesha Takia

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

— Paul Laffoley

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.

— Edward Albee

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

— Dorothy Parker

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw…

— Rachel Gibson

Everyday I'm writing a new quote.. but now I'm writing a book everyday.. a book of magic and spells to solve every…

— Avi ItaLlica

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express…

— Katie Kitamura

Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He…

— David Copperfield

“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It…

— Arnold Bennett

At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite…

— Cynthia Kadohata

“My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another…

— Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

“Missing the call that your positive dreams send you like a gift in a multimedia message download to your brain like a…

— Tracey Bond

“The top one in the pile is a young-adult fantasy novel in which the main character is dead. Ugh, A.J. thinks. Two…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time…

— Morris Gleitzman

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts,…

— Gordon S. Wood

“It's a truth universally acknowledged...”

— Jane Austen

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

— David Nicholls

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

— Carolyn Parkhurst

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

— Kevin J. Anderson

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

— Claire Messud

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

— Anonymous

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

— Plato

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

— Anonymous

“All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)”

— Blanche Bachelar

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

— Sylvia Day

The literature from which I come is rather large.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Snatchin' up the books one read at a time!”

— Cymia

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

— William Faulkner

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

— Jo Walton

It's best to be happy do your favorite thing to do like,reading a book

— Maria Angelica Zabala

I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

— George W. Bush