Books Quotes · Page 57

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein

“Books aren't sad; they're just words.”

— Matthew Haughey

I live for a good read!

— Cynthia Bailey

“If you could read, you knew shit.”

— Michael Moore

“I love to read. My favorite thing.”

— C Kibg

I guess there are never enough books.

— John Steinbeck

Just read and then comment

— Anonymous

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

— Pauline Kael

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

— William Boyd

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

— Daniel Suarez

“To read, or not to read...where is the question?”

— Brenda Sloan

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

— Zadie Smith

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

— Kevin J. Anderson

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

— James Joyce

Do not learn the art of face Reading, somewhere you should not hate life, all written on the heart of the recent

— Mak_786

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

— Rick Moody

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

— Alice Eve

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

— Sheila Heti

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to…

— Alan Lightman

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

— Herman Melville

The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.

— Howard Jacobson

When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name.…

— Judith Hoag

But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my…

— Maria Popova

“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books.…

— Michel de Montaigne

Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one…

— Alan Bennett

“New Adult is a label that is condescending to readers and authors alike. It implies that the books act as training wheels…

— Lauren Sarner

We knew that we wanted TheHunger Games to be PG-13 because she wrote the book for readers 12 and up, and we…

— Nina Jacobson

“Virginia Woolf wrote famously, “About December 1910 human nature changed.” Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all…

— Deirdre McCloskey

So many books, so little time.

— Anonymous

“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

“What you read renew your mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A reader [is] a time traveler.”

— A.K. Kuykendall