Books Quotes · Page 154

“Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart”

— Carmela Dutra

“As an author, I'd rather by read than rich”

— K.B. Stevens

“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

— Paul Virilio

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

— John Updike

First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.

— Reggie Lee

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a…

— Andy Muschietti

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

— Mark Twain

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden…

— John Burroughs

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

— Patrick J. Adams

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a…

— Virginia Woolf

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.”

— Rand Miller

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know…

— Diane Setterfield

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,…

— Walter Kirn

“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some…

— Iain Banks

I try to learn as much as I can and try to - I haven't really read any books in my entire…

— Viktor Hovland

“In this Choose Your Own Story book, you make the decisions, and you get to go to Wendigo’s Academy for young witches…

— Aidan Orion

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and…

— Joseph Joubert

I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't…

— Tony Kushner

I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but…

— Robert Christgau

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

— Richard Donner

My passion for books has changed my life.

— Marley Dias

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

— Terry Bradshaw

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

“Leadership. More than a New York Times best seller book.”

— Alin Sav

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too”

— HEINRICH HEINE

“The novel was rejected by thirty publishers”

— Alan Griffin

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

— Morgan Saylor

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

— Sai Baba

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

— Yann Martel

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

— Lois Lowry

“The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”

— Jess C. Scott

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

— Josh Billings