Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal… — Loretta Chase
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she… — E. M. Delafield
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why,… — P.B. Kerr
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on… — Buddhadasa
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a… — Lynn Flewelling
To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream… — Unknown Author
Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication. — Tony DiTerlizzi
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt… — Unknown Author
If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the… — Unknown Author
Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. — Edward Feser
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All… — Amitava Kumar
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on… — Jackson Browne
Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a… — Frank Langella
Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put… — Campbell Scott
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new… — Robert Kirkman
Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else. — Robert Kirkman
I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and magical delight that… — Douglas Gresham
The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page .… — Jerry West
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There… — Carl Perkins
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. — Annie Dillard
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at… — Joseph Wood Krutch
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own. — Dalton Trumbo

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