Books Quotes · Page 269

“A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.”

— Amit Tiwari

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

— Lara Dutta

“An ex-libris is to the book what a collar is to the dog”

— Edward Gordon Craig

“Let books take you somewhere you've never been before”

— Shantae Birton

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

— Colum McCann

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

— Daniel Pennac

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

— Kenzaburo Oe

Idk y people wear makeup... we r pretty the way we r! TO GIRLS! Ur face is not a coloring book! stop…

— Jazz

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book,

— Danny Porush

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've…

— Nick Hornby

The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all…

— Dennis Kucinich

“My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and…

— Washington Irving

It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She…

— John Green

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just…

— Danica McKellar

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not…

— Galileo Galilei

“That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What…

— John Green

“Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality…

— Stephen King

I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,…

— Wole Soyinka

“What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.”

— Horace

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

— Ahmet Zappa

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

— Mae West

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

“I don't ever want to read a book with the word globe in it again.”

— Caris O'Malley

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

— Nat Hentoff

“Books are not life, however much we may wish they were”

— Julian Barnes

Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

— Janet Evanovich

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

— Malala Yousafzai

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

— Susanna Clarke

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

— Lorrie Moore

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

— David Nicholls

“People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives”

— Akita Lovers

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

— Sheridan Hay

“Tea, chocolate,Scotties and a good book. Perfect!”

— Pamela Harden