Books Quotes
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman
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I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.
Carlos Santana Santana
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I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
Benjamin Carson
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George Eliot
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I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
Sandra Brown
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
Ellen Douglas
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
Harmony Korine
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
Barry McGee
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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The wise are above books.
Samuel Daniel
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
Frances McDormand
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
Rudyard Kipling
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
Tama Janowitz
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
Malcolm Gladwell
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There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
Maeve Binchy
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Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
Karen Robards