Books Quotes · Page 800

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

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

— John Tillotson

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

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

— Denzel Washington

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

— Yiyun Li

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

— Ben Okri

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

— Graeme Simsion

Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and…

— Michael Tobias

“If you read the books then you have no conclusion you do not dare to kick out this idea or theory "wrong",…

— Khem Veasna

After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It…

— Eliza Scanlen

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their…

— Pat Conroy

You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents…

— Bob Hope

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save…

— Marguerite Duras

A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look…

— Sergio Aragones

“I shared my office on 57th Street with Dr Jacob Ecstein, young (thirty-three), dynamic (two books published), intelligent (he and I usually…

— Luke Rhinehart

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

— Maria Popova

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

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

— Don Roff

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

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

— William Faulkner

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— James Frey

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

— Lee shippey

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

— Jeffrey Archer

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

— Jennifer Weiner

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

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I…

— Brian Selznick

“Books rose to the ceiling, which rose to a point, with ladders that leaned against the walls.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find…

— Anonymous

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

— A. A. Gill

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your…

— Joanna Lumley

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh,…

— Michael Connelly

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

— John Ruskin

“It is my hope that when a reader chooses to suspend their reality for mine, that it will be time well spent.”

— Sharon Van Orman

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or…

— Ian Mcewan

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley