Books Quotes · Page 208

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

— Avi

“I'm not a fan girl, unless appreciating the books makes me one.”

— M. Pierce

“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think anyone can do a book if they want to, it's just timing- wise.

— Brandi Glanville

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

— Anonymous

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

— Amitava Kumar

“The consumer status, the authors concluded "did not unite; it divided.”

— Anonymous

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.”

— Jarod Kintz

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

— Charlotte Rampling

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

— Anonymous

“He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood.…

— Clive Barker

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

— R. L. Stine

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed…

— William Hazlitt

For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw…

— Markus Zusak

William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it…

— Harlan Coben

I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just…

— Maureen Johnson

One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I…

— Philip Kitcher

He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .…

— John Dryden

“Trying to play my part and stay home, Burying my nose in a book like a gnome, But I know how Rapunzel…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,…

— Robin Sloan

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and…

— Gary Paulsen

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

— Ellen Glasgow

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

— Dawn Powell

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

— Oscar Wilde

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

— Dev Anand

“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.”

— Larry McMurtry

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If your life was a book, would you be the main character?”

— T00zday

I don't have secrets, my life's an open book.

— John Cooper Clarke

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

— Bobby Fischer

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

— Charles William Eliot

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

— Ann Patchett

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.

— Sylvia Day

“Be a book of compassion, kindness, and gratitude.”

— Debasish Mridha

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

— Anonymous

I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.

— Nick Faldo

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

— Dejan Stojanovic