Books Quotes · Page 664

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

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

— Natalie Dormer

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Karan Bajaj

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

We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist.…

— Christo

“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script.…

— Billy Collins

“He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even…

— François Lelord

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love…

— Libba Bray

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up…

— Stephen King

“Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when…

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Italo Calvino

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

— James Patterson

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

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

— George Stephen

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

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and…

— Rudyard Kipling

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

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

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

— Anne Rice

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't…

— Alan Arkin

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

— Richard de Bury

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and…

— Michael Rosen

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

— Roddy Doyle

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

This life is an secret book,which time, what will happen no one knows and no one can predict but only on can…

— Dolpalimala

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

— Katharine Weber

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

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

— Anonymous

“Elaine: They're good people. They do good things, they READ. Jerry: I READ. Elaine: Books, Jerry. Jerry: Oh. Big deal.”

— Seinfeld