Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Jim Harrison

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

John Le Carre

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Walter Kaufmann

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Mark Millar

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

Dick Wolf

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Kate DiCamillo

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

Jonathan Coe

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

Paul Muldoon

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Franz Grillparzer

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Lafcadio Hearn

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Kevin J. Anderson

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

Jonathan Shapiro

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Hilaire Belloc

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

Jonathan Carroll

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Julien Green

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

James Broughton

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Igor Stravinsky

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

Bill Sienkiewicz

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

Walter Jon Williams

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Frank Crane

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

Rick Moody

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Vladimir Nabokov

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Jeffery Deaver

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Cyril Connolly

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Antonia Fraser

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

Alan Dean Foster

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Alan Dean Foster

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Norman Cousins

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Piers Anthony