Books Quotes · Page 167

I want my readers to find their own way.

— Alexandra Stoddard

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.”

— Umberto Eco

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

— Kellan Lutz

“When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you”

— John van de Ruit

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

— Storm Jameson

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

— Penelope Lively

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of…

— Tim Howard

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

— Raymond Chandler

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive…

— Alain de Botton

“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?”

— G.K. Chesterton

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

— John Green

“Chapter Twenty-Four: Surprise Better Title: Oh My God! I Hate Everything About This Book! I Want To Kill It With Rocks! AGH!”

— Dan Bergstein

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the…

— Robert Caro

My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right…

— Jenna Jameson

“She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher…

— Wendy Wax

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work…

— Tommy McCarthy

You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I…

— Kevin Bacon

“We forget everything: the books we read, the temples of Japan, the tombs of Luxor, the airline queues, our own foolishness. And…

— Anonymous

If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It’s great…

— James W. Pennebaker

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly…

— John Muir

“autobiographical novel. He fancied himself”

— Dinesh D'Souza

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

— Gabrielle Aplin

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

“Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.”

— gary paulsen

“come on stand up and read . Don't just sit there!”

— Jeremy Lam

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

— Maryanne Wolf

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Study from new books but from old teachers.

— Turkish Proverb

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

— Robert Frost

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

— Marge Piercy

“I'm reading a book on infinity - I can' wait to see how it ends!”

— Iain Pattison

“...we all have at least one book hiding in the body”

— Ceci Miller-Kritsberg

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

Some people read. I like to put words together.

— Iman Shumpert