Books Quotes · Page 527

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book…

— Robert Littell

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the…

— David Heyman

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

— Tom Clancy

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

— David Lloyd

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

— Samuel Smiles

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

— Mark Twain

“The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to…

— Anonymous

“You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a…

— Gaston Leroux

We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I…

— Veena Sud

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one,…

— Billy Graham

I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote…

— Patrick Stump

“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able…

— Swami Vivekananda

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was…

— Katherine Hannigan

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

— Chris Ware

“Because all books ARE the Book of Job -- man in the crucible like Jack in the Box…”

— Stanley Elkin

Children won't just love to read. Children learn what they live, parents are responsible for instilling that in them.

— Anonymous

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get…

— Donald Ray Pollock

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

— Bill Walton

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…

— Harold Bloom

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

— Michael Cunningham

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

“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

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

— Miyamoto Musashi

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

— Jacqueline Wilson

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Michael Helm

“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

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

— Roy Blount, Jr

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