Books Quotes · Page 69

Being poor is only romantic in books.

— Sidney Sheldon

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

— Thomas Gray

“The Most Dangerous Book In America”

— Michael Mayhem

“Have you hugged your book today?”

— Barbara Brooke

I hate having to read the manual.

— Trevor Horn

“I am a very slutty reader.”

— Kyle Minor

“I wonder so I read.”

— J.A. Jackson

“Don't just read a book. Eat it!”

— Jim McDougall

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

— Walter Gilbert

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

— Toby Jones

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.”

— Simon Garfield

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

— Ray Bradbury

“The best word is Allah's book. The best path is Muhammad’s path.”

— Anonymous

“A person's books are private, not to be poked around by others at will.”

— Kate Furnivall

Marketing starts even before our books are published.

— Heather Hart

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

— Ann Brashares

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it…

— Meg Rosoff

“Having an available budget that spent regularly to buy new books affects positively on the knowledge balance of your family”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

— Drew Magary

Happy Saturday Make the most of this day! Laugh, Love, Read Live, Love. Learn Play, Dream Just Be Happy Live Every Moment...

— Anonymous

In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young…

— Ruskin Bond

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

— George Carlin

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in…

— Martha Stewart

“who’d spent most of his life indoors with books. Sunja carried in a low dinner table for him, its small surface covered…

— Min Jin Lee

I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue…

— George Saunders

And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that…

— Johnny Depp

I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I like what I've…

— Wentworth Miller

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one…

— Umberto Eco

I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“For women who do too much—which includes, dear publishers, pretty much all the women who have enough disposable income to buy your…

— Jennifer Weiner

I am simply a book drunkard.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“i love erotic books.”

— Marilyn Lee

“Life is a book waiting to happen.”

— Sloan McBride

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

— Camille Paglia

I like to hit every shot in the book.

— Bianca Andreescu

“Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

— Nora Ephron

“Escape to Read and Read to Escape!”

— Maggie Thom

Don't judge me, I'm not a book.

— Melanie Marquez