Books Quotes · Page 265

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

— Caleb Reese

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

— Neil Strauss

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

— Stephen King

The point of doing TV is not to prove how clever you are, but to make other people realise how clever they…

— Bettany Hughes

“Back: Tap to retrace your steps. For example, you can follow a link from a book, then tap the Back button”

— Amazon

I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

— Paul Morrissey

Its never to late to start over. Life is like a book you can choose whether or not finish the book or…

— Anonymous

“Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better—more nostalgic—as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a…

— Stephen King

I one time hooked up with somebody off an app who gave me an autographed copy of a book he wrote.

— Scott Evans

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a…

— Max Lucado

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a…

— Elif Batuman

“In this book, Doc Ford references “snag fishing” for tarpon in Boca Grande Pass on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Thanks to Kenneth W.…

— Randy Wayne White

“Job is a wisdom book. But not all wisdom books are alike.[42] Proverbs contains instructional literature (discourses and proverbs) that encourage wise…

— Tremper Longman III

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every…

— Cynthia Heimel

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as…

— Morgan Brittany

“You can't compare any book on earth to that which God has created. It has visionless humans as flat characters and those…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Even though Sam wasn't a romance author, he knew all the big ones, the heavy hitters and those that had crossed genres.…

— Carolyn Gibbs

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,…

— Roberto Bolaño

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Jacob Hochstetler’s story is shared in the book Amish Grace:”

— Ora-Jay Eash

“The best thing about writing is the reader”

— Girish Kohli

“A great book remains eternally in one’s memory as today’s legend.”

— Mayi Ngwala

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;

— Charlotte Bronte

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

— Patrick O'Brian

There are no limits to life once you learn to acsept yourself.

— Anonymous

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

— Angela Lambert

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

— Isabel Allende

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

— Richard Peck

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

— Jim Cornette

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”

— Heinrich Heine

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

— Nora Roberts

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

— B. C. Forbes