Books Quotes · Page 512

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

— Helene Hanff

“People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve…

— Jarod Kintz

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to…

— George Eliot

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you…

— Laini Taylor

“That's just the thing, I love so many of our book boyfriends, ALL of them actually." -Scarlett”

— Erin Noelle

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books…

— Augusten Burroughs

“She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.”

— Victoria Connelly

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

— Ray Bradbury

Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that…

— Cornelia Funke

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing…

— Mike Greenberg

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some…

— Dominic Owen Mallary

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a…

— Gopi Krishna

“I think a great book title would be “Ida Says ‘I do’ in Idaho.” It would be about a divorce in Washington…

— Jarod Kintz

“Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“... the bestselling novel taking the Ankh-Morpork literary world by storm was dedicated to Commander Samuel Vimes. The title of the book…

— Terry Pratchett

“In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.”

— Joan Didion

“express written permission of the author. Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the”

— Amy Wright

“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.”

— Samuel Richardson

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it…

— Ksenia Anske

Relationship is like a book, it takes few seconds to burn but years to write. So write it carefully and never let…

— Abhishek Tiwari

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

— Salman Rushdie

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

— Steve Bannon

“Ask a guy who his favourite authors are. If he doesn't list a single female among them, something up.”

— Stephanie Davies

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

— Gillian Flynn

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

— Walter Jon Williams

Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie.

— Sarah Greene

Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.

— Emma Healey

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold…

— Alan Ball

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families,…

— Jeff Corwin

Life is like a novel. Many chapters read and forgotten. But there is one I wont forget. Its the chapter I met…

— Babloo

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So…

— Lena Dunham

“Readers often root for characters that are innocent victims – or who are subjected to forces beyond their control.”

— Rob Parnell

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

— Sefi Atta

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll…

— Al Leiter

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they…

— Robert Barr

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

— Barbara Corcoran

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

— Vladimir Nabokov