Books Quotes · Page 773

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get…

— Rupert Brooke

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

— Azar Nafisi

“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.”

— Jason Ellis

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to…

— Steven Spielberg

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison

“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly…

— Vince Passaro

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to…

— Paul Theroux

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I…

— Lois Lowry

“Is not a book of more value than metal?’ asked Cumscrad. ‘It is the fruit of a person’s brain and contains knowledge…

— Peter Tremayne

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

“I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like…

— Norman Mailer

“I know there were no guaratnees. No way of knowing what came next for me, or him, or anything. Some things dont…

— Sarah Dessen

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of…

— Margaret Atwood

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words.…

— Markus Zusak

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

— Tyler Hilton

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's…

— William Golding

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

— Anonymous

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were…

— John Malkovich

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never…

— Andy Murray

“A million books’ worth of theoretical knowledge couldn’t equal one direct experience of the self.”

— Omar Delawar

“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My…

— Rick Yancey

“Read the story like you believe it, read with passion to your children. Encourage their imagination”

— Ian Davies

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is…

— Cynthia Rylant

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

— Sara Levine

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

— Anonymous

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

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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

— Andrej Pejic

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Jonathan Coe

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Horace

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

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

— Robert Harris

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