Books Quote by Jack Hemingway

“When he read his father’s books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on…

— John Steinbeck

“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.”

— Linda Grant

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are…

— William Golding

The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out…

— Richard Brautigan

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back…

— Michael Caine

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

— Kabir

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit…

— William Faulkner

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

— V. S. Naipaul

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

— William Faulkner

“My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his fingers on…

— Jeanette Winterson

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books.…

— William Faulkner

“I was used to hiding magazines inside my Bible so I’d have something to read during Father’s sermons. I never would have dreamed that…

— Sam Torode