Books Quotes · Page 457

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

— Benazir Bhutto

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

— Rick Harrison

...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ...

— Anonymous

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the…

— Carolyn Wheat

“For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.”

— Violet Haberdasher

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

— John Green

For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to…

— Osman Rashid

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

— Alfred Kazin

“So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone…

— Italo Calvino

I've always been interested in writing prose. I doubt anything will come of that, but I like the idea of creating things…

— Alex G

“Have you ever wanted to learn Geometry, Calculus, Physics, German, and the mystical teachings of Orafoura? Well, now you can! Just not…

— Jarod Kintz

Be it a trip to the dentist, getting an injection or even coming home with a good report card, my reward always…

— Sonam Kapoor

It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,…

— Fernando Pessoa

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table,…

— Nora Roberts

If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic... But…

— Sudha Murty

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

— Ashwin Sanghi

“I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book.…

— C.S. Lewis

“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ”

— John F. Kennedy

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

— Anonymous

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

— Octavia Spencer

“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.”

— Fran Veal

“Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our…

— Roz Morris

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“A sunny nature? A light heart? I have never been so insulted. Light-hearted is a short step from witless in my book.…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

— Edward Abbey

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

— Andrei Codrescu

“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.”

— Francois Mauriac

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends”

— Helen Keller

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

— George Saintsbury

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're…

— Edward Burns

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my…

— Sara Pascoe

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age…

— Alexei Sayle

Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.

— Robert J. Sawyer

One Best Book Is Equal To Hundred Good Friends.. But One Best Friend Is More Than A Library

— Anwar Saicha

I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food…

— Jack Monroe

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes