Books Quotes · Page 683

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that…

— Paul Smith

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and…

— John Grisham

“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.”

— Deanna Vasquez

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

A leader is a good reader of lifes experience as a better student to be the best teacher to others through live…

— Anuj Somany

“I’m thirty-four years old and prefer to sit at home with a good book than go out and party.”

— Susan Stoker

I don't read loads of books, but I talk to and learn a lot from many different people I encounter and that's…

— Ben Francis

In business, you can write your own book. The more unique it is from anything written before, the more likely it is…

— Kenneth Cole

Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that…

— Robert Nozick

A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said…

— Elmore Leonard

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying…

— Salman Rushdie

“I’ve been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on an island,” Mary Lou said to Adina one afternoon as…

— Libba Bray

“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this…

— John Barth

“When a woman enters my house, a tunnel of books welcomes her, a carnival of heroes bounces from every corner, and I…

— Rawi Hage

“Liesel and Papa made their way through the book, this man was traveling to Amsterdam on business and the snow was shivering…

— Markus Zusak

“You’ll learn in this book how other courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have diminished the rights of consumers, voters and…

— David Cay Johnston

I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.

— Mike Vogel

“I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.”

— Leonard Cohen

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

— John Henry Newman

“This approach is refreshing because most of the programming books I've read are drier than a camel's fart.”

— Alan Dipert

“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of…

— Ksenia Anske

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or,…

— James Gleick

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

— Will Rogers

It is until you are lost into reading you will never be found among true readers.

— Jumbo Obiesia Ukot

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

— James Dickey

“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

“I adore chocolate. I require books. They are like oxygen or water, vital to my existence.”

— Lia Riley

“She’s too hot, even for you. And since she’s got a book, she probably knows how to read, so she’s smart enough…

— Nicole Williams

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

— Sergio Leone

“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.”

— Dan Makaon

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know,…

— Anonymous

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

— Peter R. Mansoor

“I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.”

— Tamara Faith Berger

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for…

— Celeste Ng

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

— Charles Dickens

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

— Suze Orman

I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.

— Emily Giffin