Books Quotes · Page 618

The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point…

— Leon Morris

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

— Victor Hugo

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

— William Styron

I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is…

— Gino D'Acampo

“The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions…

— Frederick Kilgour

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an…

— Lee Child

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“This book is for a black light, a bottom bunk and a hug, For a doorway, a pair of kicked-off shoes and…

— Megan Hart

Body have to physically strong and sturdy. Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me. Mentally advanced fi always urge me. Read a…

— Damian Marley

I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean,…

— Jon J Muth

I've always been interested in people that you wouldn't see otherwise. If you look back at my books, photographs, and films-and since…

— Larry Clark

“No matter what danger you might face," the wizard resumed, "within this book is a magical solution." I did as Ebenzum bade,…

— Craig Shaw Gardner

“Perceptive and valuable personal explorations of time alone include A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, Party of One by Anneli Rufus,…

— Michael Finkel

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking…

— Steven Millhauser

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought…

— Joseph Campbell

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my…

— Lauren Weisberger

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

— Catherine the Great

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a…

— Zadie Smith

“Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam”

— Stephanie Skeem

“Standing behind the desk,checking out an appointment book,is Mr.Asshole himself,Vincent.”

— Laura Wright

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

— Nigel Hamilton

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

— Mariel Hemingway

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

— Philip Yancey

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

— Harvey Pekar

“Friends, books and a cherfful heard and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here”

— William Mather

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

— Cornelia Funke

Boys think of girls like books if the cover doesn't catch their eyes, they don't bother to read what's inside.

— KAriana

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

— Julia Glass

“Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.”

— Israel Wayne

“they do have these things called bookstores there. I've heard tell that if you give them money, they let you leave with…

— Lauren Morrill

“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.”

— Jules Verne

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll…

— Susan Meissner

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for…

— Marjorie Liu

Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too,…

— Poe Ballantine

Of course, with Papaveria Press, you know the book itself is going to be beautiful.

— Theodora Goss

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a…

— David Duchovny