Books Quotes · Page 94

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

— Michael Winterbottom

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

— Alice Walker

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

This life, make it simple same as a book, enjoy it as you read it...

— Anonymous

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

— Noah Hawley

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Feel is not something that you learn in a book. Feel is something that you find as a musician.

— Nishan Panwar

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

— Jonathan Swift

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

— Leslie Fiedler

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a…

— Deb Caletti

My school was right across from a comic book shop. I'd often go there to read the 'Invincible Iron Man' comics.

— Iman Vellani

“Both were girls, dressed in gowns with bodices formed of leather book spines and skirts made of love story pages.”

— Stephanie Garber

“My book is extremely graphic. I make no apologies for it. But it is graphic only because I told the truth about…

— Bernard Schaffer

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an…

— Alan Moore

The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is…

— A. B. Simpson

“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around…

— Kapil Sharma

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and…

— T. E. Lawrence

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The more “compassionate love”—warmth, affection, and connection—employees feel at work, the better they do their jobs, say two authors who present new…

— Anonymous

“Because the Egyptians had no feeling that events of the moment were transitory, they viewed the present as eternal. The world was…

— Norman F. Cantor

I don't bother with computers, although I have an electronic reader.

— June Brown

The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

— John Berendt

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

— William Hazlitt

“is often a good career move for an author.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“A life without books is like body without a soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

— Colonel Sanders

Kiss me a paragraph, and I will reply with a novel.

— Anonymous

“Words are the key, the books are the door.”

— Velin

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

— Alberto Manguel

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, where books are concerned.”

— Alexandra Petri

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

— Bill Pullman

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

— Carl Jung

“I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library.
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— Jarod Kintz

Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.

— Cliff Asness

Read Euler: he is our master in everything.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace