Books Quotes · Page 496

“She didn't know how long they stared at each other, but the look on his face made her forget about the book.”

— Sasha Summers

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is…

— Bell Hooks

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.…

— Tarun Betala

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop.…

— Linda Hamilton

“Chapter one is where you reach out your hand to the reader and say, "Come, let's have an adventure together.”

— Tenaya Jayne

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…

— Rita Dove

I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and…

— Tao Lin

“Author: A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape with wanton disregard. His days are spent picking up all the stray…

— Leopold Throckmorton

“I've never written a book, except my first, without at some point considering that I might die before it was completed. This…

— Julian Barnes

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the…

— Mary Steenburgen

“Embodiments know not what slavery may be where minds in shackles and chains put nature to shame Mind, shallow or neat, are…

— Dew Platt

“The only course to pursue to make life bearable on such a day, at least for women (I speak not of men,…

— Rhoda Broughton

“Was it possible to love more than one person at the same time? I had always thought it just kind of a…

— D.T. Dyllin

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

— Don Marquis

“What can a man read in a library of cannibals? Bloody books bound by bones in tissues’ paper.”

— Stephan Attia

You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I…

— Yami Gautam

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Your vacation depends upon the book that tells you where to go, and it is called your cheque book.

— Vikrant Parsai

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

— Anne Lamott

If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists - things they actually need and can…

— Emma Gonzalez

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write…

— Max Lucado

“The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.”

— Anthony Powell

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to…

— Richard Adams

Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! I almost bounced clear outta the book! Some bouncin', huh? [after he tries to jump out of the book while climbing…

— Tigger

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.

— Stephen C Johnson

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

— Max Frisch

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

— Robyn Davidson

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

— John M. Ford

“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from…

— Chad Harbach

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've…

— Kate Morton

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

— David Grann

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old…

— Elizabeth Moon

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work…

— Walter Jon Williams