Books Quotes · Page 62

Let my temptation be a book.

— Eugene Field

I read the Bible every day.

— Denzel Washington

I love to read and write.

— Kunal Kapoor

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

— Fiona Apple

I don't read magazines too often.

— Auston Matthews

Real poverty is lack of books.

— Sidonie Gabrielle

“Reading makes you learn more.”

— Anonymous

“In a word, literature is my utopia.”

— Helen Keller

“After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.”

— Anonymous

“Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.”

— Jordan Urtso

“Stop calling yourself an authoress. You sound like an idiotess.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“The secret ingredient in my books is, there has never been a villain.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

“This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.”

— Erin Kellison

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

— Dean Koontz

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

— Edward Young

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Though I'm not as addicted to gaming as I'm to books, I have to admit that I can't stop myself from grabbing…

— Akshara Haasan

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

— Natasha Bedingfield

“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association”

— Sharon Lovejoy

There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a…

— Gerald Petievich

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,…

— Karen Traviss

“The dog growled again, long and ferocious. The hair on my neck tingled. And just when I knew he would attack, a…

— Carol Petrie

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain…

— James Franco

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my…

— Italo Calvino

“Choosing a color for your paperback book cover feels like entering a mall and seeing a dress you love, just your size,…

— Sahara Sanders

“Markets are not just about the steam engine, iron foundries, or today’s silicon-chip factories. Markets also supported Shakespeare, Haydn, and the modern…

— Tyler Cowen

“To close read is to linger, to dally, to take pleasure in tarrying, and to hold out that these activities can allow…

— Elizabeth Freeman

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and…

— G-Eazy

I don't read when I'm travelling.

— Charley Boorman

I never read comic books as a kid.

— Al Jourgensen

“She’s read many books.”

— Kate Elliott

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

— Coretta Scott King

“Defeat winter, read a book.”

— Bibiana Krall

Of all things, I liked books best.

— Nikola Tesla

Never judge a book by its spine

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I would never read a book.

— Sam Bankman-Fried