Books Quotes · Page 193

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

— Markus Zusak

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

— Anonymous

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

— Shel Silverstein

I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.

— Ann Patchett

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

— Gary Shteyngart

“Books may fill a woman's head, but love must fill her heart.”

— Elizabeth O'Donnelly

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

— John Hickenlooper

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

— Henry Allen Ironside

“How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?”

— Madi Brown

“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”

— Ryū Murakami

The really beautiful thing about each book of the Bible is that you can find God's love through each chapter because God…

— Jennifer Rothschild

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

— James J. Kilpatrick

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

— Erin Morgenstern

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”

— John Steinbeck

“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A stack of children’s books stood ready by René’s bedside, and as Picard had begun the paternal duty of reading his boy…

— David Mack

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city…

— Helen Keller

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become…

— Amy Tan

“Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS,…

— Umberto Eco

When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that…

— Alan Moore

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would…

— Ian Frazier

“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that…

— Mary Virginia Provines

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

— Tom Sizemore

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

— Arthur Helps

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

— Anonymous

“People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.”

— Clive Barker

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

— David Ben-Gurion

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

— John D'Agata

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

— Ezra Pound

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

— Andrew Card

“Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. ”

— Alberto Manguel

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

— Khaled Hosseini

“All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.”

— Mary Papas

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

— Demosthenes