Books Quotes · Page 292

“Financial statements are my novels, I am a Chartered Accountant.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

A story can only be contained in a book.

— Andrzej Sapkowski

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

— Henry David Thoreau

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

— William C. Brown

A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'

— Melvyn Bragg

Never give a child a book you can't read!

— David Nasir

“How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.”

— Gregory Maguire

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

— Brian Jacques

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

— John Green

“Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?” - Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One:…

— N.L. Armitage

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

— Horace Walpole

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak…

— Chris Meledandri

“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes”

— Harold Bloom

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

— Edgar Allan Poe

“During his reading hours, which were between one and five o'clock in the morning, but not every morning, he had come to…

— Julio Cortázar

“What is the use of it all, if we don't recognize that the purpose of our book distribution is to encourage as…

— Aindra Das

Oh, 'Pandaemonium', by Chris Brookmyre! Just fabulous - such a layered, beautifully structured, engaging, intelligent book. I love all Chris's stuff, but…

— Diana Gabaldon

But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those…

— Kate DiCamillo

The mystery is cool, but, at the same time, if I'm trying to empower people, I have to be an open book.…

— Slowthai

Well, actually I look at the book and the movie [Deliver Us From Evil] - the movie isn't about a cop or…

— Ralph Sarchie

“perhaps within me the desire to put off that which I most in the world desire of late keeps watch, I mean,…

— Hélène Cixous

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in…

— Chris Rock

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

— Virginia Woolf

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

— Regina Spektor

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

— Kevin J. Anderson

Books come in really handy when you need something to put your laptop on.

— Nikhil Saluja

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

My loyalty is to myself, actually. I don't know if it's to my readers.

— Penny Junor

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

— Rob Marshall

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Just as we are what we eat, we are what we read.”

— Jason Merkoski

“You can't judge something, you haven't read or know nothing about. ”

— Corey J. Salter

You will be transformed by what you read.

— Deepak Chopra

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

— Jeff Bridges

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

— Joe Wright

“Great escape read, yet always come back again and again”

— Clive Cussler

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

— George Orwell

“Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't." --Mark Twain”

— Lisa Mayme Corbit