Books Quotes · Page 174

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

— Margaret Atwood

“The only drama I have time for is the kind between the covers of a book.”

— Rae

“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” ~ Author Unknown”

— Becca Chopra

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

— Anonymous

“Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“In books we seek God, in prayer we find him”

— Wyatt North

“Cinderella first appeared in a book in the 850s in China”

— Adam Anderson

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

— Sharon Creech

“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.”

— B.R. Myers

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

— Ravi Subramanian

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

— Mohsin Hamid

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy…

— Al Alvarez

Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit,…

— Obert Skye

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

“I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.”

— Charles Williams

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never…

— Julia Cameron

I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue…

— George Saunders

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in…

— Martha Stewart

“who’d spent most of his life indoors with books. Sunja carried in a low dinner table for him, its small surface covered…

— Min Jin Lee

“Can you imagine? Fourteen-hundred-year-old views of history determining how neighbors interacted in the twentieth century? No. You can't. Because history here is…

— Nafisa Haji

“I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of…

— Richard Wright

“The Vedic literatures are the laws of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One cannot violate the injunctions given in the Vedic literatures…

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a…

— Haruki Murakami

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention…

— Dean Koontz

I'm just going to write the best books I can.

— Michael Connelly

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

— Keith Donohue

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

— Francine Pascal

“You can't always watch a movie in class, you can read a book!”

— Your Mom

I read the entire 'Alias' series. I devoured them.

— Krysten Ritter

Never Judge a Book by it's Cover you may miss the Important Part.

— Earlene Michelle Robateau

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

— Simon Van Booy

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

— Shereen El Feki

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

— Henry Miller

“Dear books, please take me to the places where my feet can't take me.”

— H. Midorikawa

I just don't read reviews, because it can really hurt you.

— Toni Tennille

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

— Joy Fielding

She knows me like a book, it's too easy to read my ass.

— J Cole

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

— Archie Manning

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

— Kam Williams

“Babies move more than books and aren’t as conveniently shaped.”

— Gabrielle Zevin