Books Quotes · Page 306

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.

— Max Lucado

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.”

— E. Millicent Sowerby

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

— Shannon Hale

“a book is just like life and anything can change”

— Dr. Seuss

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.”

— Maureen Jennings

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all…

— Nathan Bransford

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy…

— Thomas a Kempis

Don't close a book you are reading until you read every word that was not written.

— Anonymous

“Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page”

— Cornelia Funke

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

— Lauren Myracle

“There is a big difference between an imperfect book that is read and a perfect book that is never written”

— Don Newman

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was…

— Larry Hagman

That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to…

— Don DeLillo

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever…

— Ira Bruce Nadel

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no…

— James Frey

Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is…

— Michael Morpurgo

“The book of Genesis shows that God created humanity and gave him life. The unfolding drama is that the male, Adam, and…

— Akwasi O. Ofori

The fact that we're at a point today where anybody, anywhere can put a comic book together and get it in front…

— Darwyn Cooke

“For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in…

— Franz Kafka

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

— Pete Wentz

I want to print books by people in the film industry.

— Brett Ratner

Be the Author of your Destiny, not the Victim of your Circumstance.

— Nishan Panwar

I read a lot of Greek mythology and thrillers.

— Akshara Haasan

“Never read the comments, she reminded herself. The”

— Sarah Title

“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”

— Richard Smyth

“Read it first, then tell me it’s cool.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.”

— Donald Sassoon

“Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write.”

— Douglas Wilson

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

— Thomas Perry

Blow minds not boys, open books not legs.

— Anonymous

“Writing picture books is like playing Tetris with only Z-pieces.”

— Colleen A.F. Venable

“the book I was reading turned out to be crack ”

— Elizabeth Norris

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

— Gao Xingjian

“Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

— Henry David Thoreau