Books Quotes · Page 737

Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of…

— Ray Arcel

“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the…

— Jen Campbell

Dont judge me by how I look but by who I am...dont judge a book by its cover because you never know…

— Tamara Bean

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

— Jennifer Weiner

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

— Jeffrey Archer

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose…

— James Frey

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

— Lauren Oliver

Maxim and FHM and the 'laddie books' are really just a downscale version of Playboy. The men's field is really hot today,…

— Hugh Hefner

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a…

— Elmore Leonard

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with…

— Cory Doctorow

“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems…

— Ian Gregor

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just…

— Waverley Root

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and…

— Roger Waters

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin I'm writing to free myself and free women from this…

— Huda Sharawi

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return…

— William Faulkner

The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

— Amos Oz

My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -…

— Tom Fletcher

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores…

— Gordon Lightfoot

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

— Don Roff

A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

— Maria Popova

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

— Graeme Simsion

“I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone's decision against silence.”

— Yiyun Li

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

— Neil Gaiman

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

— Ben Okri

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

— Denzel Washington

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than…

— James Russell Lowell

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

— John Tillotson

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“66 books by 40 authors and we now find that it (the Bible) is an integrated message system from outside our time domain.”

— Chuck Missler

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

— David Mitchell

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build…

— Rabih Alameddine

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around…

— Alice Munro

I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.

— Duff McKagan

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

— Lois Lowry

“Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from…

— Howard Schwartz