Books Quotes · Page 176

“Before there were books, we read each other.”

— Lisa Cron

Women are books, and men the readers be...

— Benjamin Franklin

I read a lot of comic books and they don't mention Dwight Howard much.

— Brook Lopez

“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

— George MacDonald

“Give the reader hell. Stretch the reader.”

— Martin Amis

I've been reading fanfiction before I even realized what fanfiction was.

— Anna Todd

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

— Lafcadio Hearn

“And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!”

— John Galsworthy

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

— Ian Mcewan

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

— Chris Klein

“Take a time off of video games and tablets, open a great book and let it take you to a whole new…

— Madison Sellers

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

— Richard Ellmann

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

— Jon McGregor

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the…

— Karen Kingsbury

And now my face book poppin, cuz I told all the girls I would be the hot shit. One day, this will…

— Kid Cudi

I don't think I ever won't do radio. I feel like, between the radio, the podcast, the books, even social media, you…

— Bobby Bones

“Then you think there is no God?" "No, I think there quite probably is one." "Then why? …" Mustapha Mond checked him.…

— Aldous Huxley

“Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and she mentioned there was a difference in me. She asked if I was happy,…

— J'son M. Lee

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor…

— Horace

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham…

— Matthea Harvey

“the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right…

— L. Neil Smith

“In a decade that would become known as the Roaring Twenties, a “Jazz Age” glamorized in the works of authors like F.…

— Charles River Editors

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need help, and that's what books are for.

— Kami Garcia

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

— George Gilfillan

Cheating on a good woman is like failing an open book test.

— Anonymous

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”

— Diane Setterfield

“The great words never die... and so does the soul of its author.”

— Toba Beta

I've always said that music is like literature.

— Jose Carreras

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Books are as important to a fool as a mirror to a blind..

— Kshitij Roshan

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

— Meg Cabot

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

— Walter Benjamin

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

— Adriana Trigiani

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

— Steven Cojocaru