Books Quotes · Page 377

“Guys are open books; wives can read them without breaking a sweat. They’re just little boys who love being bad.”

— Jack Erickson

“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than…

— Dejan Stojanovic

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody…

— William Golding

I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.You know why? I didn't want to, but he sent me his…

— Donald Trump

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

— Anonymous

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

— Stephen Chbosky

I don't read books about NEVER GIVE UPs because I already know I shouldn't give up on anything I love until it's…

— Terry Mark

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God;…

— Daniel Webster

“Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the…

— Charles Martin

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek…

— Alexander Pope

“Taking inspiration from her own experiences as a wife, mother, principal and teacher, Ellick creates a realistic and thought-provoking modern scenario for…

— Bainbridge Island Review

“The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions.…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and…

— Willa Cather

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on…

— Donald Phillip Verene

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

— John Milton

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

— Sarah Dessen

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

— Umberto Eco

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

— Shane Warren Jones

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

— Flannery O'Connor

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.”

— Jenny Hubbard

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

— Charles Wright

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants…

— James Goodnight

“But holding a book always puts me at ease, knowing a happy ending is between my fingertips.”

— Jenni L. Walsh

I'm writing a book, and there's not even space for a desk in our home. So I spent my hard-earned book money…

— Faith Salie

As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like…

— Don Winslow

A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book…

— Andrew Hudgins

All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest…

— Michael Jackson

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people…

— Louise Erdrich

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

— Barack Obama

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically…

— Mark Twain

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

— John Updike

The iPod was once so important to Apple that the estimable journalist Steven Levy wrote an entire book about it. And then,…

— Adam Lashinsky

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

— Herman Melville

“Everybody was legally alive now. Before the got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was an introvert really. I spent a lot of time in the crib reading books. Staying out of trouble.

— The D.O.C

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be…

— Elizabeth Kostova