Books Quotes · Page 215

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

— Geraldine McEwan

I became a children's author by accident.

— Jerry Spinelli

“Books long to be read as we humans long to be loved.”

— Keira Michelle Telford

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.”

— Laura Ruby

“Your time is precious so this book is short and to the point.”

— Luke Wroblewski

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's…

— Aldous Huxley

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.'

— Lily Collins

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

— Mark Twain

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven…

— R. L. Stine

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell…

— Christopher Morley

“We are all colorless and invisible; until you color yourself love you will not be seen. Please also check out my Book:…

— Anthony Sinclair

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says,…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

— Anita Elberse

“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it…

— Nina Bernstein

One of the great things about writing a series is that with each book, the novel is meant to stand alone on…

— Linda Fairstein

“i think any poem worth its salt, if poems can indeed be salty, should allow the reader to think. this poem is…

— Anonymous

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever…

— George R. R. Martin

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I…

— Abraham Pais

“I was asked the age old question today: why are you an author? I suppose there are lots of answers to this…

— Richard Due

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never…

— Heather O'Neill

I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black…

— Tomi Adeyemi

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

— Mason Cooley

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I expected more from literature than from real, naked life.

— Gunter Grass

“Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.”

— Ian McEwan

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

— Solomon

“Books are the best messages and gifts.”

— disha

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.”

— Criss Jami

Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

— John Ashbery

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

— Marc Bolan

“faces tell stories if you learn to read them!”

— Tom Mitcheltree

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

— Karl Barth

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“Pan, our nemesis, the demon king of the Neverland, author of all our misery.”

— Anonymous