Books Quotes · Page 85

“The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.”

— Eric Weiner

“Sayings and Doings of Ta-zan') is one of the best Zen books. [FN#142]”

— Kaiten Nukariya

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

— Henry David Thoreau

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

— Heinrich Boll

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

“She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.”

— M.R. Graham

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

— James Franco

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

— Sergio Leone

“Albert J. Guerard has justly called the story "one of the great dark meditationsin literature, and one of the purest expressions of…

— Hunt Hawkins

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

— Rudyard Kipling

“What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland”

— Lewis Carroll

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also…

— John Hodgman

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

— Neil Gaiman

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate…

— Maya Hawke

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

— Hugh Prather

What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my…

— Angela Bowie

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of…

— Adrienne Monnier

“While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the…

— Ross King

“Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them,…

— Catherine Jinks

I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a…

— Daniel Tammet

We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather…

— Al Gore

“All you fearless, magnificent scribers, writers and authors… In each story I see your triumphs, your tragedies, your trials by night… Each…

— K McDonald Andrews

I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy…

— George Saunders

What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book.”

— Craig Dirgo

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

— Theophile Gautier

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

— Walter Hill

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

— Malala Yousafzai

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

— Howard G. Hendricks

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

— Dwight L. Moody

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

— Jodie Foster

“He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.”

— Neil Gaiman

We always wanted to do a children's book of some form or another.

— Nancy Wilson