Books Quotes · Page 249

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

— Mary Stewart

Cartoons only showed you certain things. The comic books go in deep.

— Derrick Favors

“If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.”

— Ray Bradbury

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

— Alison Weir

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

— Thomas Love Peacock

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

— Horace Walpole

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets…

— Sloane Crosley

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special…

— Genesis Rodriguez

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the…

— Gunter Grass

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about…

— Will Schwalbe

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to…

— Alexandra Stoddard

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both…

— George Saunders

“I want my books to be the illicit secret pleasure each reader is anxiously anticipating to open and savor.”

— Melinda De Ross

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“How can I make a stranger see her as she stopped in the hall at the foot of the stairs and turned…

— Graham Greene

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I…

— Evangeline Lilly

I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country…

— Sinclair Lewis

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the…

— Daniel Handler

If you bury me in a grave, don't ever come visit - because you won't find me there. You'll find me in…

— Salim Akil

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe…

— Jami Attenberg

“. . . according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately…

— Stanislaw Lem

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

— Hugh Nibley

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

— Caleb Reese

“Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

— Neil Strauss

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

— Stephen King

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Jacob Hochstetler’s story is shared in the book Amish Grace:”

— Ora-Jay Eash

“The best thing about writing is the reader”

— Girish Kohli

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

— Patrick O'Brian

There are no limits to life once you learn to acsept yourself.

— Anonymous

“A great book remains eternally in one’s memory as today’s legend.”

— Mayi Ngwala