Bookish Quotes
Here is a list of all the Bookish Quotes that rotate at random on the site.
The best time for planning a book is when you're doing the dishes.
- Agatha Christie
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
- Anne Tyler
I took a speed reading course and read 'war and peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
- Woody Allen
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy
The great American novel has not only already been written; it has already been rejected.
- Frank Dane
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- G. K. Chesterton
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
- Guy Davenport
Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- Mark Twain
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
- Toni Morrison
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers, who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. Books need you!
- Gary Paulson
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas
The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
- Clifton Fadiman
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
The paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
- Charles Lamb
Never judge a book by its movie.
- J. W. Eagan
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
