Books Quotes · Page 361

Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.

— Anonymous

With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.

— Emma Healey

“If you think reading is boring, you're doing it wrong.”

— Anonymous

Life is like a novel but with the end ripped out

— Rascal Flatts

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

I've never known how to read music in my life.

— Ronnie Montrose

“someone who lends his book is stupid, but one who returns it is stupider”

— Darmanto Jatman

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

— John Edgar Wideman

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design…

— Nate Berkus

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

— Judy Blume

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

— Gunther Schuller

My life is a story, and I am the author, but i've written in pen so the mistakes i've made cannot be…

— Briana

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently…

— John Grisham

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

— Hilaire Belloc

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Pacts with the devil have been made many times. There is no other way to explain the popularity of the book Fifty…

— Jennifer Wright

“Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for…

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time…

— Susan Sontag

Its like you read my mind! You aepapr to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or…

— Dailzinho

“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial…

— Maurice Renard

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get…

— Sarah Dessen

“Well, in San Francisco if someone's against you, they know how to vote you out of an area. If someone's against you…

— Ernest J. Gaines

My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the…

— L. Neil Smith

“Everyone in life has a story to tell, and sometimes there are things in our past we spend our lives running from.…

— Dannika Dark

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

— Hermann Hesse

“Wings of a half finished book across his chest.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

— Carl Sagan

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

— John Muir

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

— John Carter Cash

I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.

— Jason Momoa

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

My father spoke several languages and he had hundreds of books.

— Michele Lamy

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”

— Mark Twain

Good dreams are better than films or books.

— Alison Goldfrapp

“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.”

— Barbara Bothwell

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

— Daniel Keyes

“Books open your eyes. Keep reading, therefore you'll never blind”

— Ema Yohana

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly