Books Quotes · Page 256

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

We want to win trophies and be in the record books.

— Rafael Benitez

I have always been into reading serious material.

— Suhasini Mulay

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

— Michel Faber

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

— Mason Cooley

My wife and I sometimes read books together. It's kind of like bed talk.

— Taboo

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

— Holbrook Jackson

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”

— Lorna Landvik

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into…

— Ransom Riggs

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the…

— Sidney Sheldon

“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.”

— Paul Auster

True colours are bright & true love is real but literature never mentioned that life is not a fairy-tale.

— Colynx Mckobby Akwetey Jnr

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years…

— Azar Nafisi

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

— Lawrence Welk

Many people talk about me entering the history books as the first female in 22 years and what a big moment it…

— Susie Wolff

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books…

— Chogyam Trungpa

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine…

— Philip Pullman

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am…

— Harold Laski

While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book…

— Lisa Lutz

I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The…

— Madonna Ciccone

'The Lord of the Rings,' obviously, had a huge, huge impact on me. I read a lot of 'Hardy Boys,' also. I…

— Blake Crouch

“‎I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel,…

— Dean Young

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

— Thomas Hobbes

“A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.”

— Aman Jassal

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

— David Letterman

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”

— Fay Weldon

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

— George Eliot

“But this one was a writer, not a reader.”

— Anthony Burgess

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

— Sean Durkin

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

— Khushwant Singh

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

— Henry Rollins

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

— Arthur Hertzberg

“Platform, simply put, is your visibility as an author.”

— Chuck Sambuchino

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

— Nora Ephron

“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

I dont buy everything I read, I haven't even read everything I bought.

— Bare Naked Ladies

Exams + Facebook = Your head is in the wrong book!

— Azgraybebly Josland