Books Quotes · Page 348

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

— Henry David Thoreau

“when we are in the world of reading it helps us to think in the way we wish…”

— Shebapmannil

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

— Karl Kraus

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

— Henri Nouwen

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

— William Shakespeare

I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.

— Christina Dodd

“Coffee makes you alert, books make you awake.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to…

— Salman Rushdie

“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.”

— Lawrence Welk

“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and…

— Tahir Shah

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

— T. S. Eliot

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

— Jaylen Brown

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies… I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're…

— Robert Pattinson

I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books…

— Raquel Welch

The future is what we make of it, not what someone says it will be. Our lives are not pre-destined by fate,…

— Anonymous

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic,…

— Jeff Vespa

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of…

— Martin Amis

When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to…

— Lena Dunham

Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is…

— Matthew Zapruder

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

— Amelia B. Edwards

“And go we all must, with a healthy lust of books we trust.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

— Paula Danziger

“The world is a book and those who stay at home read only a page.”

— Sean Covey

“Her self, then, was represented in her books.”

— Claire Messud

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

— Anonymous

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

— Carl Sagan

“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”

— L.D.C. Fitzgerald

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

— L'Wren Scott

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

— Blaise Pascal

“As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.”

— Rachel Lewis

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Changing Future History One Reader at a Time!”

— Henri Rast fromer Chief Editor at Voyager Press

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

— Anonymous

I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.

— John Romaniello

Alphabet soup is just soup when you can't read

— Nikhil Saluja