Books Quotes · Page 581

I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.

— Marco Rubio

People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought…

— Paul Reubens

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai

“A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice”

— Sharon Lovejoy

“Your story must told. Live a life legacy- written book or notes. This will be there for many generations to know your…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

— Christopher Hitchens

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in…

— Claire Tomalin

A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious,…

— Brenda Webster

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at…

— Alan Cumming

“The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be…

— Geert Wilders

“Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…” "What about the tutorials, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Extremely self-conscious in its craft, in many ways The Hand of Ethelberta is an exploration of fiction as illusion, which involves parody…

— Geoffrey Harvey

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too.…

— Lang Leav

“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

— Jen Lancaster

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they…

— Anne Frank

After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.

— Clive Cussler

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

— Judy Garland

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are…

— Seth Godin

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

— Lillian Hellman

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we…

— Zach Anner

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull…

— Rachel Cohn

“Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth…

— Jack Kerouac

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a…

— Mark Rubinstein

“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.”

— Yann Martel

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." [ The Sick Chamber ( The…

— William Hazlitt

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

— Ian Christe

“Adversity prunes the pages of growth and prosperity in the book of your life. You only have to determine how you shape…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

— Philip Pullman

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

— Patti Smith

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

— Hayley Atwell

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

— Kate Zambreno

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

— Pablo Neruda

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big…

— Darryl Pinckney