Books Quotes · Page 217

“Tweets and text messages killed the long novel.”

— Andrew Barger

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

— Steven Wright

“I always buy another book when I still have ten to read.”

— Bipolarkath

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

“A books should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.”

— Samuel Johnson

Tomorrow is the first blank page of 365 page of book. So write a good one.

— Brad Paisley

“...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.”

— Brittany Hawes

“Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war…

— Lavie Tidhar

“she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a…

— Betty Smith

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

— Francis Bacon

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap…

— Nick Laird

Read the Quraan throughout every month. Read the Quraan, for it will come and intercede for its readers on the Day of…

— Babloo

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

— George Steiner

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them…I know they are as lively and as…

— John Milton

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read…

— Asne Seierstad

I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun…

— Carl Sagan

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the…

— George R. R. Martin

I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I…

— Edgar Saltus

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will…

— John Steinbeck

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner—financial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes,…

— Jancee Dunn

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

— Junot Diaz

Woman's face is like an open book that reveals her stateàof mind...

— Mazher (@mazher50

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book.

— Brad Bird

“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie”

— Anita Silvey

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

— Tracy Morgan

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

— James Schuyler

I've been called every name in the book.

— Ryan Fitzpatrick

The more you read, the better you get at it.

— James Patterson

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

— Terry Pratchett

“Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.”

— Ronald E. Yates

“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Im tatted from my face to my foot so my body reads like a good book

— Nipsey Hussle

They defy gravity, as good books should.

— David Levithan