Book Quote by Matthew Pearl

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

— Sue Townsend

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them.…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply…

— Lloyd Jones

The good of a book lies in its being read.

— Umberto Eco

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be…

— Penny Junor

Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? -…

— Jonathan Miles

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

— Rodman Philbrick

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

— Jean Rostand

Books can be misleading

— Anonymous

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over…

— George A. Moore

“The certainty of incoherence in reading, the inevitable crumbling of the soundest constructions, is the deep truth of books. Since appearance constitutes a limit,…

— Georges Bataille

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

— Lois Lowry