Books Quotes · Page 188

With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want

— Anonymous

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

— Anonymous

“She was addicted to literature like some people were addicted to heroin.”

— Allie Burke

Literature is the expression of society.

— Charles Nodier

“When he read, he forgot that he was waiting.”

— Louise Yates

I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.

— Matt Smith

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

— Martin Freeman

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the…

— David Bezmozgis

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

— Maria Semple

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

— Michael Tubbs

“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the…

— Thomas Keating

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

— Michael Chabon

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

— Clifton Fadiman

“I am so obsessed with my life that the books I used to read are resting in the bookshelf for years and…

— Neymat Khan

“The book of Proverbs teaches this truth: ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish’ (Proverbs 29:18). If we are to prosper…

— O. Vincent Haleck

I mean this is not like a very dry political book. This is - it was a very quick and entertaining and…

— Eleanor Smeal

“This is the one time in this book this book that I felt Mustang acted like himself. His thoughts were so "Mustang".…

— Cat Johnson

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape…

— Harlan Coben

“My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred…

— Anthony Burgess

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

— Neil Gaiman

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write…

— George Gissing

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

— Mark Twain

“The result of my obsession with boredom is this book:”

— Manoush Zomorodi

“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.”

— Martin Booth

Books and minds only work when they're open.

— James Dewar

As always, one of her books was next to her.

— Markus Zusak

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book

— Courtney Love

But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.

— Mark Rylance

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

— Jeff Bezos

“Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.”

— Mia James

“A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.”

— Los Angeles Times

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

— Cyril Connolly

“Maybe I should follow someone considering my next book is titled stalked.”

— Juanita Ray

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

— Andy Richter

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“Throw away the rule book and create your own.”

— Sandra Bellamy

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

— Kristian Nairn