Here are some more wonderful quotes I thought you might enjoy about books … reading them and writing them. Some are funny, some are insightful, all are thought-provoking.
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. – Anonymous
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers. – Matt Mullenweg
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen
I spend a lot of time reading. – Bill Gates
People who say they don’t have time to read simply don’t want to. – Julie Rugg
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one. – George R. R. Martin
I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. – J.K. Rowling
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Ray Bradbury
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. – Stephen King
A cliffhanger is when… – Buffy Andrews
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I thought to myself, why not write a bestseller. In the first place, more people read them, you make more money, and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book that nobody buys. – George Burns (The Third Time Around)
I’d say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don’t go by me; I’m as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you’d be paying twice as much for this book. So relax, read it, and if you don’t enjoy it, remember that you’re saving money. – George Burns (The Third Time Around)
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best. – Grace Allen
Never judge a book by its movie. – J. W. Eagan
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I’ll take the money. – P. J. O’Rourke (All the Trouble in the World)
Which do you like of the above quotes? Do you have any to share?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂
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