Books Quotes · Page 163

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

— Jan Koum

“David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.”

— Mary Papas

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

— Al Franken

I have a weakness for tough guys who read." - Izzy Spellman

— Lisa Lutz

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

— Moliere

“Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd...”

— Robert Burns

A good book is either a friend or a teacher. The bad one is the boss.

— M

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

— Honore de Balzac

“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the…

— Anthony Powell

“I will discuss four of these themes in more detail: the nature of man, the nature of God, the influence of Deism,…

— Grant Palmer

When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from…

— Christopher Moore

He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

— Charles Finch

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

— Yuri Razuvaev

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

— Albert Einstein

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

“The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of…

— Diane M. Komp - Pediatric Oncologist

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject…

— Brian Crozier

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher…

— Paul Theroux

If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them --…

— Mark Twain

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely…

— Adam Ross

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his…

— Lucius Shepard

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these…

— Heidi Julavits

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

— Andy Serkis

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

— Terry Pratchett

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

— Robert Sheckley

“Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt…but do read...”

— Rabindranath Tagore

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

— Kurt Cobain

Reading a book. It's like a Kindle, for idiots.

— Anonymous

“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.”

— Sandhya Menon

“The Zoe is the book you’ve been writing in. It means “life” in Greek.”

— Nicole Gulla

Of course YA authors have a responsibility to their audience.

— Rebecca Serle

Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts

— Kevin Knight

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

— Jupiter Hammon

“Most of our customers have rather liked The Book Thief.”

— Gabrielle Zevin