Books Quotes · Page 172

“Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.”

— Jef Mallett

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

— Abraham Lincoln

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

— Beatrice Wood

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

— Barbara Cartland

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block

“Every book read with pleasure up to its end deserves a five star rating.”

— Niovi Lyri

I write the best book that I can write each time.

— Karen Robards

“The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point…

— Frank Peretti

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

— Jo Walton

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

— Rachel Dratch

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word,

— Mstislav Rostropovich

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

— Dave Eggers

“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one…

— Fred Allen

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

— Alberto Moravia

“The resurrection of this once popular work [Ping Jinya's forgotten bestseller of the 1930s, Tides in the Human Sea ] is a…

— Mark Elvin

“ I wrote my first novel, McFarlane Boils The Sea, under the influence of Kelman and Proust, which is like drinking a…

— James Meek

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us…

— Junot Diaz

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the…

— Joanna Lumley

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new…

— Maya Angelou

“William Feather, publisher and author, said: “The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is…

— Sir John Templeton

“Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader’s store of…

— Marilynne Robinson

So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that…

— Don Paterson

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

— H. L. Mencken

The more I read about words; the more careful I am about using them

— Anonymous

“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

— J.K. Rowling

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

— Sherwood Smith

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

— James Wolk

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

— Garry Wills

“We are...two open pages of the same book”

— Hisham Matar

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

— Plato

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.

— Dave Barry

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

— Mason Cooley

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

— George William Curtis

“Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves.”

— Omar Kiam

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

— Charles Spurgeon