Books Quotes · Page 315

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

“BIG books are better.  There, I said it and it's true . ”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

— Richard Bach

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

— Sidney Sheldon

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

— William Temple

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

— Sylvia Day

“The books...they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.”

— Tahereh Mafi

May books and nature be their early joy!

— William Wordsworth

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the…

— Dallas Willard

“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.”

— Stacia Kane

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

— Jane Smiley

“Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.”

— Chandan Sharma

If anyone ever wanted me to do Broadway out there, poopshoot readers, please think of me.

— David Arquette

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

— Ben Marcus

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

— Louis Menand

“Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them”

— morgan

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm…

— John Edgar Wideman

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now…

— Markus Zusak

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore…

— Miguel Syjuco

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…

— Ian Rankin

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to…

— Rebecca Solnit

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description…

— George R. R. Martin

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested…

— Natasha Trethewey

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

— Ralph Lauren

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

— Rumaan Alam

Man doesnt have time to read story books but always fall for Stories.

— KM II

“She was the books she read in the library.”

— Betty Smith

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.

— Leon Russell

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

— G. N. Devy

As a book is judged by its cover, so a fad is judged by its name.

— Ken Hakuta

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

— Joseph Joubert

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

— Mason Cooley

“... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.”

— JoAnn Ross

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

— Abel Ferrara

“My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

— John Green

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

— Jay London

Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.

— Celeste Ng

I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.

— Jon Huertas

Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones