Book Quotes · Page 269

“It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors.”

— Emily Giffin

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

— Mark Millar

“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.”

— Manoj Arora

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

— Jack L. Chalker

Giving back or giving forward is the one true law of marketing.

— John Kremer

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

— Chris Ware

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

— Elie Wiesel

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

— Mo Willems

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you…

— Ruta Sepetys

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books…

— Roger Angell

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you…

— Dominique Swain

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could…

— Kate Morton

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

— Mark Twain

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we…

— Alberto Manguel

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort…

— Michael Ian Black

He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really…

— Nat Hentoff

Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as…

— Danielle Dutton

It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I just noticed I've been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven't been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo…

— Mark Millar

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was…

— Jared Diamond

“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis…

— Scarlett Thomas

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding…

— Michael Silverblatt

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

— Pete Wentz

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

— Gaston Bachelard

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.”

— Margarita Engle

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

— Jim Fergus

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

— Francois Mauriac

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

— Sterling W Sill

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

— Eleanor Porter

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

— John M. Ford

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

— Jesmyn Ward

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

“Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this”

— Haidji

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

— Natalie Goldberg