Books Quotes · Page 349

“But it's like the feeling you get at the end of a book you love.”

— Stuart Murdoch

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

— Cherie Priest

“In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.”

— Kim Wright

“area (click here to view my list of the 10 top books on visual thinking).”

— Chuck Frey

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

— Vera Brittain

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

— Italo Calvino

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

— Cynthia Ozick

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

— Bob Dylan

“And just like in his horror movies and books, people did stupid things when faced with overwhelming stress and fear.”

— Hunter Shea

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

— Mark Twain

“I've been living in fear. I've been living only in books. Which is fine, but … I don't want to just read…

— C.M. Stunich

For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do…

— Joel Grey

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put…

— Bill Wyman

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

— John Ruskin

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

— Ray Bradbury

“As Narrative (Novel, Passion), love is a story which is accomplished, in the sacred sense of the word: it is a program…

— Roland Barthes

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and…

— Bryan Konietzko

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to…

— Anonymous

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go…

— Ben Fountain

“Here is my book Decentralized Globalization: This is my life for the past 40 years, from the moment I have left Romania…

— Dr Olga

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory…

— Elbert Hubbard

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry.…

— Graeme Base

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books…

— Raina Telgemeier

For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

— David Frost

No book of mine is complete without a dog.

— Peter Temple

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.”

— Damien Echols

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

— Donald Pleasence

I have an old book of traditional recipes that I refer to.

— Chef Damu

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

— Emma Roberts

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

— Kristin Cashore

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

— J. C. Ryle

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

— Margaret Atwood

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

— Norman Mailer

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

— Jeanette Winterson

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

— Edith Hamilton

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

— Katy Lederer

“Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha