Books Quotes · Page 263

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

— Leslie Charteris

God is not the author of confusion but is the author of peace.

— Quentin L. Cook

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

— Lisa Gardner

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

— Gary Paulsen

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

— Regis Debray

I love being educated by historical novels.

— Debra Stephenson

Maybe one day I'll write a full-blown tell-all book.

— Ariana Madix

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

— Paul Auster

“Rather than change the content of my book, I changed the font. I think it made my book funnier.”

— Jarod Kintz

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

— Lionel Shriver

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores…

— Steve Wozniak

“One of the best books I’ve read was George S. Clason’s The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a…

— Sophia Amoruso

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the…

— Alison Tyler

“Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.”

— Christy Hall

The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get…

— David Shields

“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Why don't they read him more? I have him in eight volumes; none of your little books of selections, which somehow take…

— Mary Annette Von Arnim

I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work…

— Julianne Moore

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no…

— Herbert Read

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as…

— Jane Smiley

It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big…

— Dev Anand

And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your…

— Randall Jarrell

“The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved…

— Jane Austen

I really try to understand what people are saying and answer as honestly as I can. But sometimes it's like they try…

— Daphne Guinness

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

— Romain Rolland

“a book like this. I wish I had access to such a source”

— Anonymous

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

— George Sand

“Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.”

— Lisa Cach

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

— Ernie Harwell

When all is dead, the words will be read.

— Jeremy Limn

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

— Rudyard Kipling

Books are the door of escape from the forest.

— E. B. White

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

— Marla Frazee

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

— Lleyton Hewitt

“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...”

— Jane Austen

“The truth is, my friend, you never know where a book will take you.”

— M. Scott Snelten

“taken from Chip and Dan Heath’s great book, Stick.”

— Anonymous