Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. — Martin Cruz Smith
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just… — Sufjan Stevens
I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my… — Stan Lee
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure… — Stan Lee
Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the… — Christine Gregoire
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. — Joseph Roth
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic… — Lester Bangs
I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The… — Leo Lionni
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,… — Augusto Roa Bastos
If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. — Mark Pryor
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light… — Matthew Pearl
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something… — Mary Stewart
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle… — Joanne Harris
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when… — John M. Ford
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust… — Michael Swanwick
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people. — Manuel Rivas
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and… — Margaret Mahy
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for… — Nancy Spero
There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns… — Jordan Belfort
The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you… — Shirley Jackson
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my… — John Keegan
As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which… — Sharon Creech
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and… — Nick Hornby

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