Books Quotes · Page 182

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

— Charles Spurgeon

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

— Alberto Manguel

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— Anonymous

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

“Don't let anything get in the way of reading a good book”

— Abby Noland

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

— Caspar Weinberger

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new…

— David Duchovny

“Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.”

— Walter Isaacson

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow…

— Megan Fox

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I…

— William Saroyan

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

— Robertson Davies

As a Scotsman, my first Tintin book was of course The Black Island, my favourite Tintin adventure since then!

— Andy Murray

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

— Bette Midler

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

— Koren Zailckas

“Self-care is not a perfect journey. Different factors and barriers, including mental ones, get in the way of self-care. Even when armed…

— Jor-El Caraballo

“We're quiet then, quiet enough that I can hear the books around me creaking in their shelves, rustling their pages, stretching their…

— Katie Williams

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.…

— Virginia Woolf

“Proponents of established norms often push rules like 'Write what you know' on new writers. In truth, everything we write is about…

— Stewart Stafford

“Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to…

— Prem Prakash

In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and…

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

“Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress people that they don't like!"…

— Will Smith

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity…

— Chris Abani

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

— Anne Waldman

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

— Susan Straight

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

— Victoria Justice

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

— Mary Cantwell

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

— Ben Aaronovitch

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

— Megan Abbott

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

— George R. R. Martin

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

— Anonymous

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,

— Harold Bloom

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

“There was something sexy as hell about us well read book sluts.”

— Haylie Harbour

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

— Jerome Charyn

“When you read a book, its like a viewing in your head.”

— Travion Rucker