Books Quotes · Page 344

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

— James Arthur

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding

“If you read, you shall renew your mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

— Carrie Coon

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

— Don DeLillo

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

— Laurie Graham

“I put the book down and went to the window. I stared at my reflection and the trees behind it for a…

— Stephen Chbosky

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.

— Charles Spurgeon

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I…

— Maya Angelou

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I…

— Roger Zelazny

“We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that…

— C.S. Lewis

Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how…

— Tony Hiss

“The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to…

— Benjamin R. Smith

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad.…

— Bruce Jenner

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for…

— Patrick Ness

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American…

— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

— Ice T

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

— Raymond Chandler

“The author was an invisible point from which the books came”

— Italo Calvino

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

— John Mica

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

— Sergey Brin

I love books that stand the test of time.

— Harper Reed

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

— D. H. Lawrence

“To read is to dream, guided by someone else’s hand.”

— Fernando Pessoa

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

— George Henry Lewes

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

— Oscar Wilde

“Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)”

— Terentianus Maurus

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

— J. I. Packer

Being Indian, you won't be surprised to learn that your life is an Open Book!

— Mishan Amithab Kasiparsad

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

— Sara Sheridan

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

— Claire Tomalin

“Books might be your passion but you can’t fuck a paperback.”

— Alexandra Potter