Books Quotes · Page 25

“Books aren't sad; they're just words.”

— Matthew Haughey

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein

“Remember The Poem ...”

— R.M. Engelhardt

He that runs may read.

— William Cowper

“Live to read. Read for life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If you believe you can read you can

— Lisa McMann

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

— David Mitchell

“Books don't have intermissions either." "What do they have?" "Endings.”

— Rainbow Rowell

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

— Anonymous

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

— Richard Brautigan

Book values have some good and some bad features.

— Walter Schloss

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

— Khaled Hosseini

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

— Anonymous

Your skin is not paper, don't cut it. Your face isn't a mask, don't hide it. Your size isn't a book, don't…

— Anonymous

“(...)books, pocket-size jewels, open up like doors to worlds you never knew existed.”

— Antonio D'alfonso

“I'm not sure why we have that [book on weaponry] on the shelves. I'd feel a lot better if we didn't teach…

— Lindsey Renee Backen

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

— Alan Furst

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

— Louise Brown

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and…

— David Duchovny

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

— Bayard Taylor

The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people…

— Steven Yeun

You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there's understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things…

— Rege-Jean Page

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may…

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there…

— Miguel Syjuco

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper,…

— Fredrik Bajer

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I am a product [...of] endless books.

— C. S. Lewis

So many books, so little time.

— Anonymous

“A good book has no ending.”

— E.E. Cummings

I guess there are never enough books.

— John Steinbeck

Just read and then comment

— Anonymous

“I love to read. My favorite thing.”

— C Kibg

“If you could read, you knew shit.”

— Michael Moore