Books Quotes · Page 137

“If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

— Elie Wiesel

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

— Alice Munro

“Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion”

— Ziggy Marley

The world is like a book, if you do not travel you only read a page

— Anonymous

A good title is the title of a successful book.

— Raymond Chandler

I have represented people in book deals.

— Gloria Allred

“If our love was a story book, we would meet on the very first page.”

— Shayne Ward

“if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.”

— Charles Kingsley

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

— Dionne Bromfield

“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.”

— Ian Campbell Ross

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

— Peter Temple

As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their…

— Heather Brooke

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

— Margaret Atwood

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of…

— Meher Baba

I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores…

— Matthew West

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then…

— Neil Gaiman

World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around…

— M. John Harrison

“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself…

— Laurie Penny

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has…

— Katie Kitamura

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and…

— Anne Enright

A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to…

— Russell Freedman

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the…

— Chuck Jones

“Aziraphale was an angel, but he also worshiped books.”

— Terry Pratchett

“of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt”

— Desiree Holt

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

— Elizabeth George

“My books are not profound, they're pro-fun!”

— Rob Foster

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

— Anonymous

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”

— B.S. Murthy

“but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself”

— John Milton

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

— Terence Young

“When a game cannot be won, change the game. I read that in the book of Kirk.”

— Mark Lawrence

I really didnt intend to become an author, but I just happened to fall into it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“One can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”

— Laini Taylor

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.”

— Susan Hill

“Each story in its own right is a book.”

— n/a

“effortlessly turn pages in a book or periodical while holding”

— Amazon