Their Books Quotes

73 quotes by 70 authors

In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines… — Sara Paretsky
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as… — Leo Tolstoy
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. — George Payne Rainsford James
You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books. — Thomas Keller
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings,… — Robertson Davies
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more… — Vincent Bugliosi
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.Â Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books… — Ernst Bacon
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I… — Paul Krugman
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. — Nancy Etchemendy
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books — Brandon Sanderson
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. — Lloyd Alexander
I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books. — Cynthia Rylant
The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit. — Theodore Stevens
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M.C. Escher

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