Book Quotes · Page 242

Do something every day to market each of your books for three years.

— John Kremer

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

— Judy Blume

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

— Wole Soyinka

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

— Sophie Thompson

If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

— Saul David

The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

— Karl Lagerfeld

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search…

— Mary Roach

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience…

— Hilary Mantel

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom,…

— James Badge Dale

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters.…

— Lynn Abbey

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already…

— Marcel Proust

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's…

— Suzanne Brockmann

The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my…

— Kenneth O. Morgan

For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of…

— Jonathan Turley

[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become…

— Anonymous

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of…

— David Mamet

In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing…

— Adrian Hodges

I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst…

— J. K. Rowling

I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly…

— Shirley Jackson

“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.

— Mathew Knowles

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

— Anonymous

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

— Louis L'Amour

Life is just a book of chapters written by God which you have to read very carefully before it finishes.

— Vikrant Parsai

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

— George Eliot

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

— Anonymous

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

— Aneurin Bevan

“If you were a book, I’d read you, touch you, look at you every day and never get bored.”

— Ella Fields

“Mwisho wa sura si mwisho wa kitabu. Fungua ukurasa mwingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?”

— Thomas Ligotti

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

— Dan Hawkins

“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”

— Brian Andreas

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

— Angelina Jolie