Books Quotes · Page 577

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had…

— Steve Spurrier

Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

— Megyn Kelly

In my book, that's the most important thing: loving and taking care of your family.

— Teresa Giudice

“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough”

— Josh Hanagarne

“I'll illustrate the cover of your book for a million dollars. Wait, just let me find my crayons.”

— Ederyn Khushrenada

' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his…

— Roger Ebert

No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you…

— Ali Sina

While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've…

— Paul Lynch

'Ready Player One' has it all - nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart, and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary.…

— Rebecca Serle

“That's just where I must part company with you, Inspector,” said the Vicar with a gentle smile. “I'm rather a voracious reader…

— John Bude

“I dust a whole shelf of books on pregnancy, breastfeeding, the first six months, the first year, the first two years —…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you…

— Marjane Satrapi

“...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't…

— Steve Dublanica

“There comes a time when you have to lay the book down, stop thinking, talking and planning, and start doing.”

— Karl Vaters

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

— Julian Barnes

“Books like The Lean Startup makes it sound easy to identify a problem, solve it, and build a valuable”

— Mike Fishbein

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

“A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.”

— Judah Lee Davis

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point…

— Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

“Makikilala rin tayo sa kinds of books and other reading materials that we read. Our reading is the outward expression of our…

— Ronald Molmisa

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice…

— Philipp Meyer

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly…

— Nick Cave

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book,…

— Will Rogers

I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books…

— Lidia Bastianich

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

— Anne Fadiman

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it…

— Vivian Gornick

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

— W. Averell Harriman

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

The move to Internet-enable travel booking is creating massive convenience, efficiency, and savings for consumers.

— Gillian Tans

I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be…

— Coleman Barks

Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s.

— Atul Kulkarni

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who…

— Marie Rutkoski

“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the…

— Peggy Randall-Martin

“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

— Dani Shapiro