Books Quotes · Page 284

“A good reader has the power to move the world.”

— Aman Jassal

“Better watch her. She burns other people's books.”

— Tsukumizu

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

— Judy Blume

“Books are so much more reliable than people.”

— Amy Cross

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

— Janice Dickinson

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

— Andre Gide

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook…

— Dominic Cummings

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

— Anatole Broyard

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room…

— Candice Olson

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

— Marcus Garvey

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

— John Derbyshire

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

— Jaden Smith

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest…

— Emanuel Celler

When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them…

— Mark Waid

“I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could…

— Philip Schultz

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna…

— Neil Gaiman

“Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to the elder…

— Neil Leckman

Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a…

— Mary Doria Russell

“This has been a record breaking month for book sales for Mikazuki Publishing House. The moon can only stay hidden behind the…

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that…

— Mark Cahill

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…

— Alberto Manguel

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

— Mitch Hedberg

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison

“I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.”

— Owl City

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

— Penelope Lively

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

— Emily Giffin

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

— Jim Lehrer

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray