Books Quotes · Page 241

“Pick a shelf and I'll read all about you.”

— Aphrile

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

— Alison Lurie

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

The better the book the more room for the reader.

— Holbrook Jackson

“No burglar wastes his time burgling authors.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.”

— Anonymous

“Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians.”

— Paul J. Silvia

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

— Andy Dunn

Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

— Will Schwalbe

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

— Mary Karr

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

— Richard Wagner

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic…

— Max Nowaz

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out…

— William Maxwell

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

One of the greatest joys of doing 'Comic Book Men' - I was so thankful - was that my wife Carol was…

— George Perez

There are many books in the library. Each book has a wonderful story that will never happen in reality. But as you…

— Anonymous

I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from…

— Shweta Tripathi

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that reading—that is, really reading, interpreting—literature is practice for reading and interpreting…

— Karen Swallow Prior

Yes, I'm a fan, and 'The Lost City of Z' has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to…

— Andrea Barrett

Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing…

— Willa Holland

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or…

— Jasper Fforde

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

— Neil Young

Everybody knows how to read but not everybody knows how to understand.

— Anonymous

“this book is really interesting(especially for holocaust lovers)”

— Sonia Levitin

I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.

— Colman Domingo

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.

— Daniel Radcliffe

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

— Anatole France

“I always tell people JFK's book 'Profiles in Courage' was a very slim volume.”

— Larry J. Sabato

“I'm still writing about you and you haven't read a word.”

— Travis Grant

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

— R. Scott Bakker

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

— Neal Shusterman

“I was born a dribbler, became a reader, now I write.”

— Joseph Hagen

There are a lot of books showing on how to live longer, but none on why.

— Vikrant Parsai

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

— Mason Cooley

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly

“I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila