Books Quotes · Page 460

“Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but…

— Stephen Mitchell

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud…

— Jacqueline Wilson

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is…

— Miyamoto Musashi

“The real world isn't like one of those lending library novels that you ladies read--and write--so avidly.”

— Margaret Westhaven

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

— Alberto Manguel

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings',…

— David Baddiel

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I'm not trying to create a stand-in or avatar with whom the reader can identify, but separate, believable characters with distinct personalities;…

— Jason Lutes

“She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked…

— Gillian Flynn

Whatever your parents do, you get conditioned to that. I remember my dad would put gramophone record, and would sit and read…

— Divya Dutta

I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should…

— Jane Austen

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the…

— Fulton Oursler

It is strange indeed how as a reader you never question the authenticity of an article being well aware that its passages…

— Mohd Aariff Khan

“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could…

— Lindsay Chamberlin

“I won't read a book whose pages have been dog-eared, because I'm more of a cat person.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.”

— Inglath Cooper

I don't read. I don't like to read 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. It's not my style.

— Nicole Polizzi

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

— William H. Gass

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

— Alan Bennett

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

— Roy Blount, Jr

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

— Anonymous

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown…

— Samuel Johnson

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

— Anonymous

“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.”

— Eve Babitz

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly…

— Anonymous

“But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

— Frank Herbert

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

— Mary Karr

“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!" ~ Richard Curtis ~”

— Richard Curtis

“Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.”

— Pamela Paul

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

— Jeanette Winterson

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

— Matt Ridley

I carry this little book around everywhere. It's like my journal, but also like ideas and drawings and everything.

— Iman Vellani

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.”

— Patricia Finney

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins.”

— Natasha Bedingfield