Books Quotes · Page 319

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

— Lois Lowry

“The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”

— Jess C. Scott

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

— Paul Virilio

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

— John Updike

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib

First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.

— Reggie Lee

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

— James Redfield

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book…

— Meister Eckhart

“Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that…

— Mark Helprin

Text books are just intelligence written down in a boring way; hands on activities are intelligence at work

— Mung-Hua Shen

“Do not try and argue the quality of literature to me,” Notak said, inflectionless. “You will lose.”

— S.G. Night

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the…

— Ray Bradbury

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many…

— Curtis Hanson

Don't stay sad. Make happy happen. Read a book. Hum a song. Sip a beer. Smoke a J. Kiss a lover. Hug…

— Anonymous

What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the…

— Charles Hampden-Turner

“Question of the day: Two Indie authors publish their first books which are true to form, statistical failures. There are over a…

— Amber Garibay

“we as authors have been writing about people we aren't for forever. We find a way to empathise, we find a way…

— Adrienne Kress

That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last…

— Jessica Zafra

I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant…

— Laila Lalami

“Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought…

— Glen Duncan

"The Cursed Wheel," which Declan [Shalvey] is starting here, is the one constant. It's a story in the backups that will go…

— Scott Snyder

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that…

— Isabel Allende

My passion for books has changed my life.

— Marley Dias

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

— Richard Donner

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

— Terry Bradshaw

“Leadership. More than a New York Times best seller book.”

— Alin Sav

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

— Vladimir Nabokov

If you could read my mind, you'd be in tears.

— Anonymous

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

— Susan Griffin

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

— Julia Quinn

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.

— Valerie Harper

“Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart”

— Carmela Dutra

“As an author, I'd rather by read than rich”

— K.B. Stevens

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

— Susan Sontag

“D.L Sparks author of All That Glitters.”

— Angel Mechelle