Books Quotes · Page 247

“Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!”

— Stephen King

“There's no reason, to talk about the books I read. But still I do.”

— Morrissey

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

— T. E. Hulme

“I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.”

— Aurora Whittet

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

“You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages”

— john j geddes

If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters.

— Damien Cantrell

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

— Lauren Myracle

“Courtship had a new rule book. Somewhere. She’d never read it and doubted anyone else in her generation had either.”

— Carrie Lomax

“Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like "getting some" only on Valentine's Day.”

— Harlan Coben

“When I think of you, and you are not here, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in…

— Cassandra Clare

“Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the…

— J Oswald Sanders

“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging…

— Richard Due

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

— Michael Dirda

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

— Tracy Chevalier

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal…

— Russell T Davies

Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure…

— Stendhal

“[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions…

— Stephan Delbos

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is…

— George R. R. Martin

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he…

— Charles Dickens

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the…

— Alan Bennett

“I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I…

— Heather Rose

“Ignore to be foolish. Read to be wise.”

— Vinit Tribhuvan

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

— Steven Wright

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

— Tim O'Reilly

You wanna know who my crush is? Well then read the first word again.

— Jahz Amandy

I used to read a lot of books and magazines about Dracula.

— Mimi Chakraborty

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

— Jean Webster

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

— Martin Amis

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

— Anonymous

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Master Oracle Advanced PL/SQL concepts with the book”

— Saurabh Gupta

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

— Paul Harding

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

— Ernie Harwell

When all is dead, the words will be read.

— Jeremy Limn

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

— Rudyard Kipling

Books are the door of escape from the forest.

— E. B. White

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

— George Sand