Book Quotes · Page 178

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

— Jason Schwartzman

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

— Ben Elton

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

— Mary Grandpre

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

— Sonia Sotomayor

When a person really desire something, the whole universe help that person to realize hi dream.

— Paulo Coelho

“Then I understood. There was no book. My father wasn’t a writer. He wasn’t even a vampire. He was a madman.”

— Kami Garcia

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

— Upton Sinclair

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

— Tim McGraw

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to…

— Richard Dawkins

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh…

— William Manchester

“Why certainly, words possess power.  They do!  But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism…

— Bill Ayers

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

— Chetan Bhagat

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can…

— Alice Hoffman

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the…

— Anonymous

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I…

— Walter Mosley

I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald…

— David Wong

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at…

— Fred Saberhagen

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only…

— Samuel R. Delany

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to…

— Graham Greene

Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit…

— Pope Pius XII

The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We…

— Tod Goldberg

In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars…

— Peter Singer

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

— John Green

“I have books I go to only when I need solace or when I am in pain of body or soul.”

— Gwen E Campbell

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

— Sarah Dessen

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...

— Jonathan Safran Foer

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

— Diane Setterfield

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

— Anonymous

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before…

— Rose Tremain

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

— George Plimpton

Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of…

— Daniel Cudmore

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

— G. H. Hardy

I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.

— Christopher Priest

“I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante