Books Quotes · Page 27

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“You never can have too many books.”

— Keith M. Weller

Literature is analysis after the event.

— Doris Lessing

If you don't believe,Read!

— Abdelrahman Sabry

Few books today are forgivable.

— R. D. Laing

“He is our man's-man of literature.”

— Andrew Barger

“Life's adventures make great reading!”

— Denise Robbins

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

— Austin Phelps

“Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.”

— Meister Eckhart

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“I will find your books and review with nastiness.”

— Andy Warhol

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

— Richard Bach

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

— Mark Haddon

“He smells the same—peppermint and cedar and a hint of old books.”

— Cath Crowley

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

— Anonymous

“any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point…

— Kate Milford

Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

— Mary McCarthy

“I either write the books or sell the jewels , and I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.”

— Ava Gardner

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,

— Eddy Cue

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get…

— Bonnie Friedman

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of…

— Hisham Matar

“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world…

— Antonio Iturbe

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

— Katherine Paterson

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's…

— Lawrence Osborne

I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I…

— Albert S. Ruddy

I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and…

— Ayana Mathis

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you…

— Larry Correia

I read 'The Last Wish' and really loved it. But I never would have called myself a fantasy writer before this. I've…

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

“My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour…

— Allen Ginsberg

“The diverse characters in the book become enmeshed in the struggle and the tension between them builds increasingly from page to page…”…

— MiddleRoad Publishers

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort…

— Marcel Proust

I was into comic books as a kid.

— Len Wiseman

Read in order to live.

— Gustave Flaubert

My books are about killing God.

— Philip Pullman

“share to learn like a mystery book”

— Jeremy Lam

I read, therefore, I matter.

— Lisa Scottoline

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

“Readers are made by readers. ”

— Aidan Chambers

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

— Harry Kemelman