Books Quotes · Page 479

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

— Milan Kundera

“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”

— Nick Hornby

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.

— Christopher Priest

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a…

— Fred Allen

“to take ones word at face value lacks sufficient evaluation to benefit the reader or leader”

— Joseph W. Parker

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

— Nicole Krauss

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

— Ira Glass

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the…

— Iris Murdoch

In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to pull myself together before I mingle with other people. Otherwise they…

— Diana Mauer

Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity…

— Jane Hirshfield

I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would…

— William Moseley

Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge…

— David B. Haight

For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to…

— Donald Knuth

“Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that…

— Camron Wright

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

“My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that…

— Joe Queenan

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm terrible at relaxing and holidays. For me, a day off is going to the gym. I could never just lie on…

— Grigor Dimitrov

I feel a great connection with my readers and would never want to disappoint them.

— Emily Giffin

“Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.”

— Jarod Kintz

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

— Bill Peet

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature…

— Ken Liu

“…I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are…

— Beatrice Sparks

“Because they don't have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.”

— Jodi Meadows

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”

— Heinrich Heine

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

— Tucker Max

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

— Ravi Subramanian

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting…

— Francine Rivers

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist…

— Charles W. Chesnutt

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

— Taylor Goldsmith

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

— Mary Augusta Ward

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

— Alison McGhee

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

— James Ellroy