Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

David Attenborough

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Andy Rooney

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

Matthew Vaughn

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Jonathan Coe

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

Dick Bruna

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer Adler

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Cornelia Funke

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

Antonio Tabucchi

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Chaim Potok

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

Helen Dunmore

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

Fred Saberhagen

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

Fay Godwin

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Ramakrishna

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

Beverly Cleary

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Shelby Foote

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

George Henry Lewes

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Bruce Jackson

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

George Henry Lewes

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Leslie Fiedler

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

William Penn

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

William Faulkner

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Lafcadio Hearn

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Raymond Chandler

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

Vincente Minnelli

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

Franklin P. Jones

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Nicolas de Chamfort

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

William Osler

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

Aleister Crowley

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Amy Lowell

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

Antonia Fraser

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

David Herbert Lawrence

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

Jack Vance

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Jonathan Carroll

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Russell Banks

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

John Barton

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.