Books Quotes · Page 200

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

— Mariah Carey

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

— H. G. Wells

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

— John Dunning

If ii Wrote About Were We Stand , The Title Of My Book Would Be

— Anonymous

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

— Mark Twain

I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.

— Pete Carroll

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

— Emily Dickinson

“My advice about reading is to do a lot of it.”

— Stephen King

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he…

— V. S. Naipaul

Well, I very rarely watch classical adaptations, because they usually do very good books, and a lot of the things they do...…

— Jean Marsh

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

— Frederick Lenz

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

— Arnold Bennett

“Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen.”

— Anthony Doerr

“...Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs...”

— Douglas Coupland

The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard…

— Karin Slaughter

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because…

— Zoe Foster Blake

This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through…

— Daniel Webster

“I cannot see myself nowhere, except to be living in the land of books. Somewhere on a distant island exists an intellegence…

— Patricia H. Graham

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our…

— Clifton Fadiman

“The book as a structure is the Trojan horse of art - it is not feared by average people. It is a…

— Walter Hamady

For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,…

— James Emanuel

Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all…

— Marina Warner

I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He…

— Steven Gundry

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

“It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.”

— Victor Hugo

I read a lot of scripts at the beginning of 2015.

— Lauren Ash

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

— William H. Prescott

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

— Robert Dallek

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

— Jean M. Auel

“If it weren't for the friends I have in books, I'd have no friends at all.”

— P.A. Hopkins

“a good teacher teach from a heart not from a book”

— moisesXD

“Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Your life is only one sentence in the Book of Life.”

— Spencer Rectenwald

“Take and remember the best part of a book like the best part of life!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

“Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.”

— Robert Galbraith

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin