Books Quotes · Page 198

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are far more a worst crimes than burning books… Not reading them.”

— Joseph Brodsky

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

— Reinhold Messner

“This book was born as I was hungry. Let m eexplain.”

— Yann Martel

You're gay, you sell books... you probably shag the books.

— Eddie Izzard

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

— Ravi Zacharias

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

— Garth Brooks

“Scary movies and books were too much for her—she read only romance.”

— Jill Shalvis

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors…

— Anna Thomas

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

— Alexander Pope

“Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read.”

— Amanda Penland

I'm a private person. I don't want to write a book because I know the story and feel no need to tell…

— Tim Henman

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

— Zora Neale Hurston

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

— Nikki Giovanni

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card,…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me,…

— Judy Blume

“This book is so huge, that the mythology took many months to create. There are literally hundreds of characters , and many…

— Clive Barker

Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming…

— Marco Roth

The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three…

— Tim Dorsey

“De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (this excerpt inspired my book, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap. Wilde wrote it to his lover while…

— Paulette Mahurin

The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from…

— Richard Wurmbrand

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew…

— Tom Riley

“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?”

— Kamand Kojouri

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

— James Rollins

The title's more important than the book.

— Larry Winget

“If you must, i'll just say nice and simple - listen music, read books”

— no one

My first two novels were very black comedies.

— Hilary Mantel

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

— William Shakespeare

I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.

— Kevin Sussman

“You can only learn to read by reading.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

— Theodore Roethke

“good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.”

— Carole Matthews

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

— Gary Soto

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up.

— Adrian Pasdar

“I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book.”

— Stephen King

“To read or not to read…why is that even a question!!”

— Missy Allsbrooks

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

— Benny Hinn