Books Quotes · Page 142

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

— Malala Yousafzai

“I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.”

— S. Evan Townsend

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Garrison Keillor

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.”

— Mercedes M. Yardley

“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.”

— Barbara Bothwell

Good dreams are better than films or books.

— Alison Goldfrapp

“If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him”

— Shannon Stacey

Life is like an open book. We always turn to new pages and grow into new chapters, but we always hope that…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Malaysians don't like to read. If you're reading this, you must not be liking it, or not Malaysian.”

— Brian Yap

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

— Rachel Caine

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book…

— Kate Christensen

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

— Antonio Tabucchi

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -C.S. Lewis”

— C.S. Lewis

“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.”

— Jill Telford

Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will…

— Laila Lalami

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care…

— Nathan Fillion

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if…

— Patricia MacLachlan

Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“...unfortunately in the matter of Speech Defects, when so much depends on the temperament and individuality, a case can always be produced…

— Mark Logue

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I…

— Alison Jackson

“It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller. […

— Gérard de Nerval

After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, science fiction became a tool for popularizing scientific knowledge, and its main intended…

— Liu Cixin

“Reading books by candlelight will make you blind.”

— George R.R. Martin

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

— Anonymous

Girl your face is not a coloring book. Chill with the make up.

— Danish

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

— Josh Billings

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

— Daniel Keyes

“Books open your eyes. Keep reading, therefore you'll never blind”

— Ema Yohana

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

— Carl Sagan

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

— John Muir

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

— Hermann Hesse

“Wings of a half finished book across his chest.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”

— Mark Twain

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

— John Carter Cash