Books Quotes · Page 38

I live for a good read!

— Cynthia Bailey

I guess there are never enough books.

— John Steinbeck

Just read and then comment

— Anonymous

“A good book has no ending.”

— E.E. Cummings

So many books, so little time.

— Anonymous

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I am a product [...of] endless books.

— C. S. Lewis

Choose an author as you would a friend.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

— Caroline Kennedy

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

“If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.”

— Steve Maraboli

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

— Rick Bragg

“I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on…

— Henry Miller

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character…

— Will Poulter

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a…

— Heywood Broun

“You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk…

— Rebecca Wells

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised…

— Claire Tomalin

Some will think your writing is genius. Some will think it juvenile. What's important is that you, the writer, are satisfied with…

— D Michael Hardy

“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still…

— Madeleine L'Engle

One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The novel belongs to our parents, I thought then, I think now. That's what we grew up believing, that the novel belonged…

— Alejandro Zambra

My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no…

— Ben Bova

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the…

— Eduardo Risso

“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is…

— Steven Pinker

“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he…

— Charlie Lovett

I never read articles about my books.

— Ben Schott

You don't write a book to show off.

— Tony Orlando

“A good beginning means a good book.”

— John Blaine

I feel like crying when I read this :(

— Maria

Books can be misleading

— Anonymous

“Your friends are a reflection of you.”

— Elizabeth George

We need a leader, not a reader.

— Herman Cain

“Readers are Leaders”

— Cornelius David