Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

Peter Sotos

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Kate DiCamillo

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Roland Barthes

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

A. B. Yehoshua

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Katherine Dunn

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Thomas More

Lastly, 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

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Ron Reagan

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Raymond Queneau

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

Marguerite Young

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Alice James

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Mortimer Adler

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Paul Eldridge

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Michael Tippett

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Charles Lamb

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

John James Audubon

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Bernard Cornwell

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

John Burns

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

Tom Brokaw

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Dashiell Hammett

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

Harvey Pekar

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

Mark Millar

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

Stanislaw Lec

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Evelyn Waugh

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

Peter Sotos

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Arthur Helps

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

James Payn

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Harvey Pekar

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Theodore White

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

Ann Rule

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Heinrich Heine

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.