Books Quotes · Page 355

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

— Roald Dahl

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

— Mary Carolyn Davies

“I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No.”

— Cypher Lx

There's relief in white space for the reader.

— Leni Zumas

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

— Terry Pratchett

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

— Saint Augustine

“a true reader always had at least one bookcase filled with books, despite owning an e-reader.”

— Anonymous

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

— Max Lucado

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

— Margaret Thatcher

“the words in your copy should be “like the windows in a storefront. The reader should be able to see right through…

— Robert W. Bly

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it,…

— Jonathan Swift

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes…

— Larry McMurtry

“Riding an omnibus or street railway was a novel experience. For the first time in human history, people other than the very…

— Michael Schudson

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A…

— Kingsley Amis

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building…

— George Orwell

[Marco] Rubio, in particular, focused on something far more elemental. Trump's character and record as a businessman, and in the process perhaps…

— Chris Hayes

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,…

— Jerome K. Jerome

How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“Sleeter Bull,* the author of the 1951 book Meat for the Table, claims the ancient Greeks had a taste for udders. Very…

— Mary Roach

“But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

My books are friends that never fail me.

— Thomas Carlyle

Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel.

— Katie Melua

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

— Seth Godin

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

— Janet Fitch

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

— Mason Cooley

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

— Camilo Jose Cela

“Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage”

— M.L. Kilian

“You may teach the blind to read but not to see”

— Cole Edward Willis

“There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.”

— Anonymous

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

— Calvin Trillin

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

— Mark Twain

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

— Ruth Rendell

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

— Eudora Welty