Books Quotes · Page 28

“َA book is a time machine.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib

I was a big reader when I was a kid.

— Steve Backshall

How can I die? I'm booked.

— George Burns

“reading of many books is distraction.”

— Seneca

“In the lie of truth lies the truth.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“My life is surround by books.”

— Cindy Ng

I've lived a thousand lives.

— Anonymous

My first love is literature.

— Gulzar

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

— Suzi Quatro

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

— Gillian Cross

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

— George W. Bush

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

— Manuel Rivas

I write my story in my books, It show that your name filled in my books

— Anonymous

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

— Philipp Meyer

“Why just read the writing? Write the reading!”

— Jesse B. Booth

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string”

— Virginia Woolf

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

— Dr. Seuss

'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still…

— Suzanne Collins

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.

— Scott McCloud

“ONE TREANT TO BLOOM THE LEAFLET TO MANY : JM EVERY BOOK TURNS THE PAGE : METALLICA”

— Jonathan McKinney

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to…

— Douglas Coupland

In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was…

— Mos Def

“Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people. Jaffe, Stuart. Southern Bound - A Paranormal-Mystery…

— Stuart Jaffe

“You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to…

— Yann Martel

I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

The 'Lost' style book is really quite set. We do things like, we walk through the jungle, and we stop and turn…

— Michael Emerson

“If you are a long-time reader, then you know the story thus far. You were there when the Alma Alerons first arrived…

— G. Norman Lippert

There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there…

— Octavio Paz

I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I've done songs for…

— Bappi Lahiri

“Every child should be read to.”

— Kim Hansen

The stitch of a book is its words.

— Rumer Godden

“If I can write it, you can read it.”

— Anonymous

“i read to escape reality.”

— Thelastchloe

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

— Hisham Matar

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill

“Why do you love books so much?”

— Robin Sloan

I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

— Omari Hardwick