Books Quotes · Page 753

“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.”

— Rick Gekoski

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all…

— George Whitefield

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore…

— Philip Yancey

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

— Liza Campbell

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were…

— Wong Kar-wai

“There was… uh, in my book, you know,” her legs moved against his and she finished so low he barely heard her,…

— Kristen Ashley

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I…

— Jennifer Egan

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a…

— Anonymous

“[THE DAILY BREATH] I love the ending of the novel "The Shack" by William Young. Mackenzie, the main character, encounters Jesus during…

— Dragos Bratasanu

There's a really wonderful book called "Man Is Not Alone" by Abraham Joshua Heschel, which makes the case that everybody is religious.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could…

— Beth Revis

While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social…

— Laurence Kotlikoff

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So…

— Don Novello

“The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed…

— Rachel Cohen

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

— Stephen King

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I…

— Elizabeth Strout

“My books are my staple diet. As serious as insulin doses for those who are diabetics!”

— Hlovate

“The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and…

— Kelly Moran

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

— Deborah Reber

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

— Cathleen Schine

“This is not a book of writing advice. It’s not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it’s here to…

— Chuck Wendig

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

— Ray Bradbury

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

— Virginia Hamilton

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always…

— Earl Sweatshirt

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

“Your days are like pages, the chapters unread. You have to keep turning your book has no end.”

— John Steinbeck

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

— Anna Paquin

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it,…

— Len Wein

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

— Chris Crutcher

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

— Helene Hanff

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

— George Henry Lewes

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

— Gustave Flaubert

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and…

— David Goggins

Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books.

— Andrew Guzaldo

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

“Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".”

— David L. Cohn