Books Quotes · Page 26

I live for a good read!

— Cynthia Bailey

I never read articles about my books.

— Ben Schott

Choose an author as you would a friend.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“This is the final book about Brian”

— Gary Paulsen

“A reader never travels alone.”

— Michael McGirr

No book ever created a soul.

— Anonymous

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

— Harper Lee

I don't reread my books.

— Graham Swift

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

— Laura Hillenbrand

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

— Wes Smith

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

— Dean Koontz

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

“READ, READ, KEEP READING. UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET.”

— Onwukwe Chimdinma

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books

— Groucho Marx

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

— Claire Messud

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens.…

— Justine Larbalestier

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

— Colm Toibin

“Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.”

— Holly Black

I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.

— Claire Messud

You cannot finish a book without closing the chapters. If you want to move on, then you have to leave the past…

— Anonymous

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

— Julia Glass

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

— Eli Roth

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it,…

— Wendy K. Williamson

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people…

— Jennifer Lawrence

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a…

— George Orwell

“If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn’t both be…

— David Silverman

“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the…

— Mike McCue

“A reader [is] a time traveler.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“What you read renew your mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

With all the lies in the books

— My Chemical Romance

“Sid Hite makes the greatest books”

— Sid Hite

I never read one book at a time.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Never judge a book by its movie.

— Anonymous

Do not read the newspapers.

— Henry David Thoreau

To read and write is a paradise.

— Carlos Fuentes