Books Quotes · Page 81

“I bear no shame in smelling books.”

— K. Lynn Cupino

Nobody can hear you read music.

— Erroll Garner

I get a warm feeling among my books.

— Anthony Powell

I regret all of my books.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Support Imagination. Read a book.”

— Robbi Sommers Bryant

I write for whoever needs to read it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't read the critics.

— Olivier Dahan

You can always read a person by what comes out his mouth.

— Rod Wave

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

— Cornelia Funke

If you want to understand the Bible, get to know the Author.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Among the bound pages - I am set free.”

— Crystal Decker

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

— David Shields

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

— Sara Nelson

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

— William Shakespeare

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

— Lynsey Addario

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

— Anne Sexton

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer…

— Lee Strobel

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do…

— Karin Slaughter

“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's…

— Lorraine Heath

I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.

— Jenny Han

“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth. This is a book about the signal and…

— Anonymous

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to…

— Sheri S. Tepper

Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education.

— Jo Coudert

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make…

— Rita Dove

“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls…

— SARK

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting…

— Carl Honore

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the…

— Hill Harper

“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists…

— Fulton J. Sheen

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by…

— Stephen Chbosky

“I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the…

— E.M. Forster

I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the…

— Jim Gaffigan

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

“A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.”

— Amit Tiwari

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.”

— Tom Stoppard

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

— Stephen King

“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”

— Shannon Celebi

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith

“another book is another dimension. another life full of imagination.”

— Kevin Armando

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

— Jane Goldman