Books Quotes · Page 300

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

— Claire Bloom

I love to lose myself in other men's minds… Books think for me.

— Charles Lamb

“Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.”

— Haruki Murakami

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

— Haruki Murakami

A house without books is like a room without windows.

— Horace Mann

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“i have read a couple of children's book. But this book is amazing”

— Anonymous

“A book lives a new life every time it is read.”

— Brandon Sanderson

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

— Robert Hass

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

— Mitch Albom

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a…

— Dylan Moran

“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen…

— Gary Shteyngart

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

— Christoph Waltz

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

— John Wilmot

I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

— Steven Hall

“Her father had never bothered with books, but when his daughter sat reading the newspaper at the age of five he wasn’t…

— Fredrik Backman

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a…

— Scott Turow

“I would have never finished the book without Sam. I wanted to finish his story, to test him, to put him through…

— K.R. Dial

“Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred…

— Leo Tolstoy

Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades…

— Oliver Gaspirtz

“The reason for which the book Dalaa’ilul Khayraat was written is well known. The author was once in need of making wudhu…

— Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list…

— Ruth First

“A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a…

— James A. Michener

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

— Carl Sandburg

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

— Roland Barthes

Knowledge without application is like a book that is never read.

— Anonymous

“Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.”

— Andre Agassi

Paul Bearer has more chins than a Chinese phone book!

— Jerry Lawler

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

— Iain Banks

To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

— Dan Millman

“No two people ever read the same book.”

— Diana Tixier Herald

“Authors know their subject. Editors specialize in knowing the audience.”

— Anonymous

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

— Keith Hernandez

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

— Ambrose Bierce

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

— Sasha Alexander

“Books made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.”

— Cassandra clare

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it.

— Babloo