Books Quotes · Page 52

“A good book has no ending.”

— E.E. Cummings

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I am a product [...of] endless books.

— C. S. Lewis

Choose an author as you would a friend.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

I never read articles about my books.

— Ben Schott

A book worth reading is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

I'd like to read all of Proust.

— Ann Patchett

“Overdose on mind candy; read.”

— Jerry Byrum

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.”

— John Aiken

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“I think: I can read into anything. I think: I can read into nothing at all.”

— Sara Baume

Every man is the author of his own life.

— Paul Auster

The devil is the author of Lies, refuse to read his book!

— Anonymous

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

— Anonymous

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

— Hannah More

“myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles…

— Marcel Proust

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was…

— Walt Disney

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.…

— Mary Mouser

“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of…

— John Bright

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

— Toni Morrison

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in…

— Bell Hooks

We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really…

— Mike Rich

It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has…

— Martin Amis

“He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and…

— Karen Kingsbury

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I…

— George Harrison

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can…

— Kanye West

I cry at the end of every book.

— Hunter Parrish

If you believe you can read you can

— Lisa McMann

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

“Remember The Poem ...”

— R.M. Engelhardt

He that runs may read.

— William Cowper

“Live to read. Read for life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein