Books Quotes · Page 295

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

— Paloma Faith

“Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.”

— Rachel Caine

Each one of us carry a story that can be a best selling novel.

— Melania

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

— Mick Foley

My way of finding a book is to go on Emma Roberts' reading list.

— Madelaine Petsch

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

— Mary Ann Hoberman

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

— Daniel Pennac

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

— Leo Strauss

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

— John Grisham

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

— Diana Vreeland

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching…

— Lev Grossman

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

— Harvey Mackay

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

“Is this all based on personal experience?” he asked, tapping the book. She reached across the table and put the book back…

— Cara Addison

There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a…

— Cory Doctorow

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is…

— Paul Beatty

“This quote has absolutely nothing to do with a book. It is a quote from real life! My husband (God Rest his…

— Eddie 7

“This book (Jarod Kintz's book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that's where I found it while scrounging for…

— Dora J. Arod

“Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And…

— John Gay

His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation…

— Donald Barthelme

In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies…

— Tariq Ramadan

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

— Anne Fadiman

“I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.”

— Bill Maher

“I am the penny whistle of American literature.”

— Nelson Algren

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

— Paul Brown

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

— Cassandra Clare

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

— Clarence Day

Never underestimate a clown with a book.

— Rawi Hage

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

— Albert Camus

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

“Read, review and pass the book forward”

— Cathy streimer

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

— Samuel Johnson

One reads books for knowledge, as one would breath Oxygen to survive!

— Andrew Guzaldo

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

— Alan Bold

I read a lot of pilots and I've tried to write some of my own - it's very hard.

— Janelle James