Books Quotes · Page 552

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end…

— Stephen K. Amos

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

— A. A. Milne

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

— Mark Haddon

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that…

— Erik Larson

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

— William Shakespeare

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three…

— Ann Patchett

“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

— Malcolm Miller

“done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got…

— Gillian Firth

Everything inspires me. It could be a movie. It could be a book. It could be a house. It could be one…

— Franca Sozzani

“There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been…

— Spencer Gordon

The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful…

— Roald Dahl

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling…

— Cornelia Funke

I was very ergnuoaced to find this site. I wanted to thank you for this special read. I definitely savored every little…

— Auth

You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he…

— Jimmy Breslin

“... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

— Ruth Ozeki

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

— May Sarton

I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my…

— Rajeev Suri

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha,…

— Denis O'Hare

“An author's ultimate reward is expanding mankind's understanding of our world.”

— Richard Mathews

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth'…

— Mitt Romney

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

— David Berlinski

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

— Edward Hirsch

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

— Richard Heber

“Magic lands in books had always seemed close to nature, but in a nice way, without all the unpleasant details.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs."-Albert Einstein”

— Andrew Clements

“Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of…

— Mohsin Hamid

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

— Todd McFarlane

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

— Marie Rutkoski

“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.”

— Kate Evangelista

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

— Mark Lanegan

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

— Robert Bringhurst

“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

— Ezra Pound

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

— Don Roff

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

— David Quammen

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

— Hermann Hesse

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like…

— Thom Yorke

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

— Ellen Goodman

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in…

— Henry Miller