Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Susie Bright

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve Wozniak

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

Ken Follett

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

Carter G. Woodson

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

Mary MacLane

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

Bob Edwards

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Morris Raphael Cohen

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Michael Chabon

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Brad Henry

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

Arthur C. Clarke

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

Alice Hoffman

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Arthur Helps

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

Alison Bechdel

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

Princess Diana

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Ibrahim Babangida

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

Terry Brooks

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Vladimir Nabokov

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

Sergio Aragones

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Wallace Stevens

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Jeffery Deaver

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

David Amram

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

Mark Haddon

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Chanakya

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Jane Haddam

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

Christo

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Don DeLillo

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Sydney Smith

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

Jean M. Auel

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

John McCarthy

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Lord Acton

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

William Cowper

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

F. H. Bradley

A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.

George Stephen

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Sarah Zettel