Books Quotes · Page 35

I've lived a thousand lives.

— Anonymous

“reading of many books is distraction.”

— Seneca

“In the lie of truth lies the truth.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Writing a book is an adventure.

— Winston Churchill

“i read to escape reality.”

— Thelastchloe

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

— Hisham Matar

“If I can write it, you can read it.”

— Anonymous

“Every child should be read to.”

— Kim Hansen

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

— Anonymous

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

“Good friends, good books and ability to sleep peacefully is good life.”

— Nitya Prakash

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

— Nancy Kress

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

— Miranda July

“To read someone else's work is good, to have them read yours is amazing!”

— Rishi Barua

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

— Anne Tyler

“Do authors cry when they kill the best characters or..." "They laugh and have tea with satan.”

— Boringmundanes and Donnermaysilee

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

— Ruth Gordon

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

— Derrick Jensen

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued…

— Julia Roberts

John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a…

— Richard Corliss

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author…

— Tom Clancy

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being…

— Mark Duplass

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is…

— David Nicholls

“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus…

— Allison van Diepen

I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that…

— Daniel Craig

The devil's in the details. The way I view my job is to bring the reader into a world they otherwise could…

— Don Winslow

The stitch of a book is its words.

— Rumer Godden

“What you read renew your mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't reread my books.

— Graham Swift

“A reader [is] a time traveler.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

— Harper Lee

No book ever created a soul.

— Anonymous

“This is the final book about Brian”

— Gary Paulsen

“A reader never travels alone.”

— Michael McGirr