Books Quotes · Page 397

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

— Thomas a Kempis

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

— Jim Rohn

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

— Henry James

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is…

— John Wooden

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life.…

— Claire Messud

“There's one thing your writing must have to be any good at all. It must have you. Your soul, your self, your…

— Elizabeth Ayres

“the most striking thing about him to the modern reader is that here was a devout Muslim who constantly made jokes about…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers…

— Neal Adams

The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too.…

— Ravi Subramanian

I love Twilight. I'm obsessed. Obsessed. I cannot go to sleep without reading. It's so funny because I saw the movie before…

— Julianne Hough

The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for…

— Anne Fortier

Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It…

— Don Borchert

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

— Fay Weldon

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and…

— Stan Lee

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

— Alastair Reynolds

“Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

— Charles Stross

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music…

— Chance The Rapper

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation…

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose…

— Susie Dent

I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged…

— Murray Bookchin

“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose…

— Anonymous

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

— James Patterson

The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this…

— Leland Ryken

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

— Francis Bacon

Developing a new designer colouring book with Laurence King has been a real passion project of mine.

— Matthew Williamson

“You are able to read this because you are educated but ever thought of those who dont have that privilege”

— Priyansh Shah

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Reader,”

— Neal Stephenson

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

— Michael Dirda

“I find television,radio very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

— Marx

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books…

— William Zinsser

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

— Hugh Howey