Books Quotes · Page 8

“I like to read I"m ten and a half.”

— Anonymous

“Wish I had more time to read!”

— Karen Steward

Meg Cabot is the best author ever

— Meg Cabot

“I'll just read a book instead...”

— Kate Nash

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

“My books are my confessions.”

— Clive Barker

The important thing is that you 'read!'

— Lara Dutta

I read blogs quite a bit.

— Satoru Iwata

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

— Kevin J. Anderson

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

— James Joyce

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

— John Cheever

“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.”

— Terri Costola

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

— Barbara Park

“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

— Walter Benjamin

“He's a liar for a living, all authors are.”

— Karina Halle

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems…

— John Dewey

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“the anonymous Chinese author we know as Laozi pointed out that no matter how good his intentions, violence always recoils upon the…

— Karen Armstrong

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

— Nicholson Baker

“In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.”

— Holly Black

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

“A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again, and the joy…

— Ruskin Bond

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

“The sacred books acknowledge with regard to Christ, that as He is the Son of man, so is the same Being not…

— The Church Fathers

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and…

— Julia Quinn

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I…

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Lois Lowry

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

— Paul Theroux

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

— Sarah Dessen

“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 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'd like to sell a lot of books.

— Terry Pratchett

You can't write if you don't read.

— Steve Earle

Most books are bought by women.

— Gloria Steinem

Books are packaged dreams.

— Dean Koontz

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

— Polly Adler

JUST READ THE JOKE AND LAUGH !

— Anonymous

“Be great, read great books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Read Between The "Lies" Not The Lines”

— Syed Sharukh