Books Quotes · Page 288

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

— Walter Hill

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

— Howard G. Hendricks

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

— Dwight L. Moody

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because…

— Danny Boyle

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

— Don DeLillo

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on…

— Charles Bolden

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

— Rachel Cohn

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach

A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then…

— Steve Vai

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book…

— China Mieville

I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

— Jenna Wortham

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.…

— David S. Goyer

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let…

— Adrienne Rich

Of all my childhood books, 'The Giving Tree and Hope for the Flowers' really did change my early world, but after reading…

— Devendra Banhart

“Here’s why the life of Muhammad [and Jesus] matters: Contrary to what many secularists would have us believe, religions are not entirely…

— Robert Spencer

“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used…

— Charlaine Harris

“I own hundreds of self-help and spiritual books and lately I’m only drawn to a few of them. I am still awakening…

— Eleyne-Mari Sharp

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a…

— Isabel Allende

“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the…

— Timothy Keller

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

— Jodie Foster

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

— Robert Cormier

Your life is the novel, and you're the hero.

— Amber Hope

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

— Kellan Lutz

“The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.”

— Eric Weiner

“Sayings and Doings of Ta-zan') is one of the best Zen books. [FN#142]”

— Kaiten Nukariya

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

— Henry David Thoreau

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

— Heinrich Boll

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

— James Franco

“She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.”

— M.R. Graham

“Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book.”

— Craig Dirgo

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

— Sergio Leone

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

— Anonymous

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

— Al Pacino

“We’re all what we read to a very considerable degree.”

— David McCullough