Books Quotes · Page 438

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

— Roma Downey

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find…

— Jeff McManus

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

— Anonymous

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

— William Empson

“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.”

— Edith Wharton

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

— Jeremy Taylor

The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices…

— Mel White

I don't think comics use iconic forms - or they don't have to. But that makes them even more "cool," if I…

— Jessica Abel

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy…

— Anonymous

“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something…

— Ander Monson

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by…

— Joseph Brodsky

“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.…

— Robert Galbraith

You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash'…

— Carole Radziwill

Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies…

— Markus Zusak

“& he watches each muscle volt into place. the surgeon became the surgeon after years of opening books & making sense of their contents”

— sam sax

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.

— John Grisham

Every single step you take can, and will change your future. Your whole life is unwritten. You're the author, make your story…

— Nishan Panwar

Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesnt mean its the end of the book.

— Anonymous

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

— Frank Peretti

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

— Katherine Applegate

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

— Norah Jones

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word. When I read: I want to feel... When I…

— Suzanne Steele

The only time I open my books to do homework is when I can't think of anything else to do.

— Anonymous

“My skin was as bumpy as a book in Braille, confessing all I could not say. And his long, slender fingers read…

— A&E Kirk

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and…

— Samuel Johnson

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

— Robin Morgan

Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

— Anonymous

“What you read SHAPES what you think and what you think SHAPES what you achieve in your life.”

— SuccessCoach Nilesh

“The book “Little Women,” what, is that about midgets? I freaking love midgets.”

— Jarod Kintz

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

— Janet Evanovich

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

— Dorothy Parker

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate…

— Mark Ravenhill

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”

— Owen Wister

“When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called…

— Vikrmn

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

— Ernestine Rose