Books Quotes · Page 206

Daydreaming while you're reading, then having to re-read what you just read.

— Anonymous

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

— Saul Bellow

“Well so what if they’re just stories? What if I need them?”

— Ben Rector

A bottle of alcohol contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

— Nishan Panwar

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

— Patricia Cornwell

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

— Richard Ford

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

— Charlie Brooker

“It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.”

— Dan Chaon

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information…

— Sophie Hannah

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“The worst book in the world is one that you didn't understand well. The best book in the world is one that…

— Alan Leddon

I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.

— Joseph Finder

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

— M.J. Rose

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do…

— Lawrence Durrell

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write…

— Barry Barish

Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness…

— Lionel Shriver

Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We…

— Lisa Jewell

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make…

— Alain de Botton

I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost…

— Andrea Dworkin

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not…

— Michael Connelly

The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and…

— John B. Watson

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -…

— Martin Amis

This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum…

— George Greenstein

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson…

— Pico Iyer

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

— Claire Tomalin

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

— N.J. Berrill

I don't like facing books …but I love Facebook...

— Nightingale

“When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.”

— Ronnie Ray Jenkins

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

— John le Carre

“The show must go on, and so must The Book.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Jihad is obligatory, not only for the Muslims!”

— Compton Gage

You cannot open a book without learning something.

— Confucius

“I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.”

— Alison Sinclair

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

— Constance Zimmer

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

— Richard Paul Evans

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

— Malala Yousafzai

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

— Ray Bradbury

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

— Austin O'Malley