Books Quotes · Page 259

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

— Steven Wright

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

— Ann Dowd

The good of a book lies in its being read.

— Umberto Eco

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

— William Gibson

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

— Ashwin Sanghi

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.”

— Colette

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you…

— Jim Trelease

“I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.”

— Ksenia Anske

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our…

— Anonymous

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I…

— N. T. Wright

You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.

— Alan Cooper

“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.”

— Andrew Barger

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the…

— Anonymous

“That’s why I live inside books. At least there I can choose where I want to be— from the highlands of Scotland…

— Aurora Rose Reynolds

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts…

— Elizabeth Bear

“Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns…

— Albert Einstein

“The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the secret of fascination. And in his book, St…

— Antonin Artaud

“I draw the line at a cell phone. If I want social media, I’ll join a book club. I will not be…

— Penny Reid

Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

So people that read the New York Times are not gonna have the slightest idea what really happened here. So not only…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Superstition is thriving. Pedantry is thriving. Sectarianism is thriving. Belief is dying out. To most of your people the jinn are paranoid…

— G. Willow Wilson

“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”

— Anonymous

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

— Narendra Modi

“The world existed to be read. And I read it.”

— L. S. Stavrianos

It's a very good historical book about history.

— Dan Quayle

“Your letters became harder to read and you became a fantasy.”

— Randolph Randy Camp

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

— William Harvey

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

— Thomas de Quincey

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

— Sadie Jones

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

— Mike Carey

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

— Anonymous

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

— Stephen Hawking

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

— Marc Gasol

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

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright