Books Quotes · Page 118

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

— Miranda July

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

I could write several books about my life.

— Bob Christo

“Good friends, good books and ability to sleep peacefully is good life.”

— Nitya Prakash

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

— Anonymous

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

— Tom Shadyac

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

— Liz Phair

“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together…

— Virginia Woolf

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen…

— Jacob Weisberg

“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been…

— Cormac McCarthy

I like to read to my kids before bed. With my first two sons we went through every Wizard Of Oz book,…

— Rob Crow

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory…

— Samuel R. Delany

“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

— William Styron

“A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot…

— Jyoti Arora

“lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around…

— J.K. Rowling

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's…

— Barbara Kruger

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The Bible is a library of books reflecting how human beings have understood the divine. People at that time believed the gods…

— Rob Bell

“And it's even in some of the western literature, you know, live and let live. That is such crap. I tell my…

— Moisés Kaufman

My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in…

— Herta Muller

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black…

— Frances Hardinge

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

“You didn’t complain when I came to keep you warm last night, author”

— Chris d'Lacey

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

— Stephen Fry

“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.”

— Henry Stevens

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

“Is there a purpose to this visit, or may I return to my book?”

— Sarah J. Maas

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

— Nora Ephron

“If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!”

— Anonymous

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

— Richard de Bury

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

— Ben Miller

“Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.”

— Tom Greer

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

— Josh Hutcherson

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

— Robert Frost

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

— Charles Clarke

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

— Sophie Dahl

“Grace will always make the difference Book Only by grace”

— Solomon Teddy Osei