Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lytton Strachey

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Thomas Bulfinch

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

William Dean Howells

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Jerry B. Jenkins

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

Patrick White

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Stephen Cole Kleene

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Laura Bush

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

Caroline B. Cooney

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

C. S. Forester

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

Nicholas Sparks

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Juan Goytisolo

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

B. C. Forbes

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

Richard Serra

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Jupiter Hammon

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

Helen Dunmore

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Edward Gibbon

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Marguerite Duras

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

John Osborne

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Salman Rushdie

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Beverly Cleary

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Paula Danziger

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

George Henry Lewes

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

Terry Brooks

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Luke Ford

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

Terri Windling

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

Leslie Fiedler

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Laurence Sterne

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

George Byron

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

Donna Shalala

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Charles de Montesquieu

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan P. Smith

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Lynn Abbey

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Raoul Vaneigem

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Daniel J. Boorstin

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Beverly Cleary

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

Max Cannon