Books Quotes · Page 707

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to…

— Catherine Mayer

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always…

— Steven Heighton

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

— Sara Sheridan

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

— Horace

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

— Jonathan Coe

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like…

— Scott Anderson

We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made;…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I really like the "two is better than three" line. People ask me is this drama or comedy? I just think the…

— Tommy Wiseau

“She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because…

— Michael Cunningham

“They should have a store next to the bookstore called the shit store where you can get shit books to read while…

— Lewis Black

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they…

— Erica Sehyun Song

I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing.…

— Eve Bunting

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

— Anonymous

“And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce…

— Sara Levine

“The same way we don't judge a book by its cover, we shouldn't judge people by their looks.”

— Eva Garcia

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

— Italian Proverb

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the…

— Whoopi Goldberg

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so…

— Edward Gibbon

“Liberty is a spirit sent out from God and, like its great Author, is no respecter of persons.”

— James Daley

“this book really is interesting that a soon as I got it I couldn't stop reading it.”

— Carolyn Hennesy

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

— Jonathan Zittrain

Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I…

— Dave Portnoy

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

— Jim Rash

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as…

— A. A. Milne

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which…

— Henry David Thoreau

Yeah I'm a fan of all the books and anything my mama cooks. Smallmouth bass have got me hooked. On Sunday afternoon.

— Eric Church

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it…

— Gideon Defoe

Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.

— Christine Hanrahan

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to…

— David Shapiro

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I was a real book person before my eyes stopped being so good. Now, thanks to the Kindle, I can read at…

— Michaela Strachan