Books Quotes · Page 747

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a…

— Anonymous

“Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.”

— Harper Lee

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in…

— Andrew Wylie

“I loved the True Crime Story "Fighting the Devil" by Jeannie Walker. It is such an interesting book.”

— Jeannie Walker

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,

— Nelson DeMille

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting…

— Jimmy Carr

I talk about past relationships in my book, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who…

— Gigi Gorgeous

I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a…

— Emily Barton

Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's…

— Molly Antopol

“Naboo: "You've read all the books, but when it comes to the crunch, where are you?" Saboo: "The crunch! How dare you…

— Anonymous

“Reading this book, you will probably get motivated to take a major faith step, but life can stare you back in the…

— V.L. Thompson

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book -…

— Anne Fadiman

“Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to…

— Vince Flynn

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

— Thiruvalluvar

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

— Anonymous

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

— Anonymous

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

— Jason Mitchell

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

— James Geary

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really…

— Floyd Abrams

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

— Maria Semple

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

“The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule…

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

“The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.”

— Tiffini Johnson

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

— Arthur Miller

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

— Gina Barreca

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and…

— D. H. Lawrence

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

— Parker Conrad

I've read both books that 'Beautiful Boy' is based on, and I can't wait to see that film. I root for that…

— Peter Hedges

The story of you life has many chapters. One bad chapter does not mean that its the end to your book.

— Anonymous

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,…

— Patti Smith

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

— Kenneth Rexroth

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

— Brooke Astor

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

— Jazz Jennings

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

— Patti Smith

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with…

— Anton Chekhov