Books Quotes · Page 181

I really liked your article. Will read on...

— Serivce

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

— John Waters

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

— Michael Caine

“beauty tip for the world, go read a book”

— Antonia Perdu

“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?”

— Florence King

“Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.”

— Steffan Piper

“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.”

— Paul Collins

Life is to short to waste time looking things up in a book. Just go to Google!

— Anonymous

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of…

— Mordecai Richler

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

“There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm biased, but I think 'Jeopardy!' is the best game around, and getting more eyeballs on it is great in my book.

— Brad Rutter

“It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.”

— Kendare Blake

“The average page of a book weighs about 0.035 of an ounce, but getting people to keep turning them takes enormous effort.”

— Dave Preston

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

— Harry S Truman

No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but…

— Augusten Burroughs

“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that…

— Philip Wylie

“What I will say is that you have to exercise your writing muscle. Write every day. Get better at it. Read a…

— Melissa de la Cruz

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a…

— Piers Anthony

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If…

— Marjorie Garber

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough…

— Chris Abani

“Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it’s utterly glorious." National Novel Writing Month…

— Ralph Peters

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography…

— Rachel Carson

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.

— Abraham Lincoln

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

— Andre Iguodala

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

— Scatman Crothers

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

— Peter Dinklage

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

— Maria Rodale

I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.

— Roberto Carlos

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

— Walter Moers

I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.

— Daryl Davis

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

— Emily Dickinson

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

— Lisa Unger

“Fucking angels -Georgina Kincaid in each book”

— Richelle Mead

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

— Stendhal

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

— William Shakespeare

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

— Greg Iles