Books Quotes · Page 572

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

— Anonymous

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

— Keith Miller

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

“I was dying, I realized vaguely. There was no getting out of that. The vampire author would be drained dry by a…

— Mari Mancusi

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

— Evelyn Waugh

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the…

— Amy Bloom

There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's…

— Stephenie Meyer

When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read…

— Eddie Kaye Thomas

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in…

— Edith Wharton

“Don’t you read or get read to?” The old man shakes his head with sharp sly triumph. “No, no. We have never…

— Charles Dickens

“I have spent these several days past, in reading and writing, with the most pleasing tranquility imaginable. You will ask, "How that…

— Pliny the Younger

“We which were Ovids five books, now are three, For these before the rest preferreth he: If reading five thou plainst of…

— Christopher Marlowe

All my books draw heavily on my own experiences, and these are not just places I have gone to on holiday, they're…

— Steve Backshall

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word…

— Thomas Paine

“As the grandmother, mother and girl said their good-byes and went on their way, Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception…

— Nina George

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a…

— Ray Kroc

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

It's not that I studied everything in books, I just learned things from my real life experiences. An experience; an asset for…

— Jessel Jane Zozobrado

I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a…

— Bill Bailey

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

— Natalie Dormer

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach…

— William Ellery Channing

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a…

— Ian Rankin

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can…

— Howard Nemerov

“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.”

— George Kohlman

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

— Tuppence Middleton

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

— Karan Bajaj

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make…

— James Patterson

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

— Italo Calvino

The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.

— Orlando Jones

“Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated.…

— Neil Gaiman

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

— George Stephen

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making…

— Dean Koontz

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

— Anthony Browne

“The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I don't need you to love me. I don't want you to hate me, but just don't judge a book by its…

— Christian Laettner

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me…

— Donna Leon