Books Quotes · Page 244

Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.

— Colson Whitehead

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

— Maurice Sendak

In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.

— Mandy Aftel

“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.”

— T.A. Uner

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

— Nat Hentoff

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

— Joan Didion

“The more i read, the more precisely i predict, the more right i am”

— Parimal Patil

I believe with books as with money, you dont loan you get.

— Elizabeth Mitchell

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

“And whoever turns himself away from remembrance of the Beneficent, We appoint for him a devil so he is his associate.”

— Compton Gage

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

— J. Paul Getty

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body,…

— Stephen Colbert

“He who succeeds without books is in an inconsolable darkness, on a mountain without company, on a path without a crosier, in…

— Juan de Palafox y Mendoza

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a…

— Bill Mumy

“A book is a friend that gives all it has in return asks for nothing except its safety”

— Bharath Swaminathan

I don't understand "The Little World of the Past" [a reference to the title of the book by Antonio Fogazzaro] that is…

— Franca Sozzani

“The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching…

— Greg Weisman

“It’s all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs…

— John Green

“Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well,…

— Yann Martel

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I…

— Sasa Stanisic

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are…

— William Golding

“Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life- written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient…

— Jean Webster

“If students merely recite academic concepts from books and their instructors' verbal lectures, it will not help them to clearly understand course…

— Saaif Alam

In elementary school, I read every single space book in the library about all the planets, about nebulas, about black holes. So…

— Sunil Nagaraj

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

— James N. Frey

“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”

— Janice Young Brooks

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

— Chris Paul

“Read a great book and enjoy the mental movie.”

— Erik Dean

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

A good business book teaches simple truths.

— Ken Blanchard

“i was born with a reading list which never ends”

— Maud Cassy

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“An insightful book possesses the ability to speak to you”

— I.R. Shankar

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

“Not even God can write a book everybody likes.”

— William Harlan

“...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.”

— Noam Chomsky

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

— Dimebag Darrell

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

— Angela Lambert