Books Quotes · Page 675

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but…

— Tony Dungy

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was…

— Chris Thile

“we must try to do justice to the three categories of literature – apocalypse, prophecy and letter – into which Revelation seems to fall.”

— Richard Bauckham

I really like Google+ it's I find it better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life.…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.

— Felicia Day

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop…

— Morris Gleitzman

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are…

— Joseph Joubert

Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason—his stuff is fun to read... It’s… filled with the freshness…

— Kris Saknussemm

“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at…

— Phillip Lewis

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and…

— Bill Bryson

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that…

— Robert Harris

“Scheherazade had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things;…

— Richard Francis Burton

“The certainty of incoherence in reading, the inevitable crumbling of the soundest constructions, is the deep truth of books. Since appearance constitutes…

— Georges Bataille

“Politics? Check out a book on thermodynamics. All the rules apply. What you're talking about is essentially energy, or the absence of…

— Nickolas Butler

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.

— Sonali Bendre

“How can the Book Award Judges’ decision be right when we know that submitting the same books to different panels will result…

— Mouloud Benzadi

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

— Avi Arad

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye

'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.

— Nina Tassler

“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.”

— F. Sionil José

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am…

— Francine Prose

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

— Arthur Helps

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always…

— Jesse Ball

Some boys refer to girls like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, then they won't even bother to read what's…

— Anonymous

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

— William Golding

“Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!”

— William Shakespeare

“We may not all be on the same chapter, but we should be in the same book". ~R. Alan Woods [2007]”

— R. Alan Woods

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

— N. K. Jemisin

“ Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels’ Little Instruction Book”

— Jack Canfield

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story…

— Len Wein

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

— Junot Diaz

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

— Pierre Salinger

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for…

— Anonymous