Books Quotes · Page 86

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

— Jenna Blum

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

— Edwin Markham

I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.'

— Laura van den Berg

If you could read my mind you'd be in my tears.

— Richie

“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”

— Seneca

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

— David Sedaris

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

— Whitley Strieber

“To find just the right book at the moment when the soul is hungry for it is a miracle, and not a…

— Jane Steger

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously,

— Anonymous

Let's just say that I don't think our show has very much in common with the book any more.

— Kristin Davis

“My priority as a writer is that my reader's entertainment comes first, second, and last.”

— B.J. Kibble

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

— William Gibson

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

— Anonymous

“You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can…

— Austin Kleon

“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I…

— C.S. Lewis

When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and…

— Camille Perri

I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores…

— Franz Kafka

Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,…

— Sarah Waters

“Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about us all. It's…

— John Osborne

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the…

— Jesse Ball

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through…

— Elif Safak

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

— Tom Stoppard

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

— Henry Rollins

I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

— Paloma Faith

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

— Austin O'Malley

Read it till the end and you will find my feeling on you

— Patience

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”

— Beverly Cleary

I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

— Eugene Field

“She handles the books tenderly, a glow of utter devotion on here face.”

— Kim Church

What do you do with pain so bad, that is has no redeeming value?

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“To learn to read is to light a fire;every syllable spelled out is a spark.”

— Victor Hugo

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

— Oscar Wilde

“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.”

— Lawrence Block