Books Quotes · Page 554

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting…

— Francine Rivers

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

— Taylor Goldsmith

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

— Mary Augusta Ward

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

— Alison McGhee

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Jesus is the perfect name! He who put away his fame! And persecuted in shame! That you will never be the same!…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and…

— Delphine de Vigan

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has…

— Ruth Ozeki

If you think you're living in an imperfect world, you can write a book about a better world and hope that enough…

— Michael Rosen

There were times I should have been completely emotionally available to my kids and I wasn't there, even for reading a book…

— Kerry Kennedy

The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the…

— Isabel Allende

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could…

— Alan Watts

“Because they don't have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.”

— Jodi Meadows

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”

— Heinrich Heine

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

— Tucker Max

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature…

— Ken Liu

“…I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are…

— Beatrice Sparks

I feel a great connection with my readers and would never want to disappoint them.

— Emily Giffin

I'm terrible at relaxing and holidays. For me, a day off is going to the gym. I could never just lie on…

— Grigor Dimitrov

“Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.”

— Jarod Kintz

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

— Bill Peet

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a…

— Fred Allen

“to take ones word at face value lacks sufficient evaluation to benefit the reader or leader”

— Joseph W. Parker

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

— Nicole Krauss

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

— Ira Glass

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the…

— Iris Murdoch

“My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that…

— Joe Queenan

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.

— Christopher Priest

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doing a book signing tomorrow at Barnes & Noble. Bring your own book...I haven't written one yet.

— Daniel Tosh

“Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but…

— Madi Preda

I've always loved to read, but sometimes I go for a year without reading a book, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

Never love someone you already loved.. It's like reading a book twice. You know just what will come next .

— Anonymous