Books Quotes · Page 329

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

— Kate Mosse

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

— Michael Korda

“The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!”

— John Irving

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

— Donald Glover

I read pretty much every tweet that's sent to me and often reply.

— George Blagden

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

— Dick Dale

“The book is man's best invention so far.”

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

— Immanuel Kant

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

— Ambrose Bierce

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

— Gerald Brenan

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living…

— Anna Quindlen

I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide…

— David Grann

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

— J. A. Jance

“Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.”

— Marguerite Poland

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for…

— Cynthia Voigt

I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's…

— Madonna Ciccone

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is…

— John Hurt

“OKAY, JUST IN CASE YOU’RE really busy or tired because you stayed up late finishing, I want to thank you first for…

— Kiera Cass

I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest…

— William S. Burroughs

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect…

— Lucy Corin

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make…

— Karin Slaughter

“Anyway. I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

— Groucho Marx

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

— Anonymous

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

*two girls hitting a boy with a book* me: hey girls are hitting on you! :)

— Yeah Buddy

“The infinate universe can be reached through the spine of a small book.”

— Andrew Hotchkiss

“Simple text might entertain you but will never let you grow.”

— Garima Dixit

“My son 8yo:"The best thing about books it does not need recharge”

— Anonymous

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

— Pat Conroy

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

— Emily Dickinson

“Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!”

— Carmela Dutra

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

— Holliday Grainger

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

— Emma Roberts

“Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!”

— Carmela Dutra

“I wrote long reviews of all four books if you want to take a look.”

— Manny Rayner

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

— William Ellery Channing