Books Quotes · Page 243

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

— Steven Wright

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

— Ann Dowd

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

“There are never enough books to be satisfied with”

— I believe Me

The good of a book lies in its being read.

— Umberto Eco

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

— Narendra Modi

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that…

— Anne Rice

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed…

— Susan Hill

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

— Gustav Klimt

“The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Like I said, I’d slam that book with a one-star rating and return it! Except Jeff Bezos won’t let you return your…

— Camilla Monk

My mind is like a book. closed to people and full of words that dont want to be read.

— Kezz Marrow

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

— Anonymous

“Here, dear reader, you must summon patient compassion. Try to imagine the hardships of a military officer triply burdened by close relationships…

— Chris Bray

“I had a ritual—and having any ritual sounded so mature that I told everyone about it, even the regulars. On my days…

— Stephanie Danler

The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living.…

— Charlotte Mason

Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore…

— Gerard Way

“To his dismay, it sounded as out of place in this somber laboratory as the book looked out of place, and he…

— Laini Taylor

“In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the…

— John Steinbeck

“Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the classic series Little House, lived that idea, facing some of the toughest and unwelcoming elements on…

— Ryan Holiday

This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never…

— James Nicoll

“The world existed to be read. And I read it.”

— L. S. Stavrianos

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

— William Gibson

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

— Ashwin Sanghi

“People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.”

— Colette

“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”

— Anonymous

“Your letters became harder to read and you became a fantasy.”

— Randolph Randy Camp

It's a very good historical book about history.

— Dan Quayle

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

— Thomas de Quincey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

— William Harvey

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

— Marc Gasol

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

— Sadie Jones

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

— Anonymous

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

— Mike Carey

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

— Stephen Hawking

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright