Books Quotes · Page 216

I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book.

— Billy Horschel

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

— Patricia Arquette

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

— Alastair Reynolds

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

— Larry McMurtry

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

— Stan Lee

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

— Orson Scott Card

“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ~John Aikin”

— John Aikin

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and…

— Stan Lee

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

— Mark Kurlansky

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

— Jacqueline Woodson

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

— Harriet Lerner

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

— Neil Gaiman

“Real life is a story too, only much more complicated...the world is a library and you'll never get to read the same…

— Chris Wooding

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

— Mordicai Gerstein

“There is no praise or criticism that is a reliable truth. Only the experience of writing a book is reliable.”

— Anonymous

“For centuries, no one was concerned that books weren’t girl-friendly, because no one really cared if girls read; but even so, we…

— Foz Meadows

A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"…

— Anthony de Mello

If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he…

— Roy Sesana

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world…

— John Green

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking…

— Anonymous

“Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable…

— Julian Barnes

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not…

— Anthony Trollope

“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but…

— Eric Bogosian

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

— Yanni

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

— Kapil Dev

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

— Grace Slick

How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

— Rachel Caine

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

— E. A. Bucchianeri

“Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

How does one say something new and not retell?

— Dejan Stojanovic

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

— Frederick Busch

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

— Ashley Montagu

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

— Will Durant

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

— Calvin Trillin

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

— Alan Bennett

Anytime your kids kill, you are at least partly to blame.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

— Jon Stewart

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

— Jan Karon

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins