Book Quotes · Page 293

“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“A two–hour length motion picture doesn’t do justice to a book of over four hundred pages.”

— S. A. David

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

— Sam Brownback

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

— Ann Patchett

I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.

— Lisi Harrison

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

— Tim Ferriss

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

— Bob Seger

There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far…

— Gerard Verschuuren

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

— Jonathan Zittrain

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read…

— Lena Dunham

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee,…

— Robert Caro

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit…

— Alistair Cooke

“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering…

— Jarod Kintz

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much…

— Terry Teachout

American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend…

— James Branch Cabell

“When people charge in with great insistence that this is God’s word all the while neglecting the very real humanity of these…

— Rob Bell

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.…

— J. G. Ballard

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will…

— Russell Smith

I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in…

— Claire Dederer

The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's…

— Jane Mayer

Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest.…

— Shauna James Ahern

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

— Jill Lepore

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

— Brandon Sanderson

I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

— Karan Mahajan

“I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head. (A Monstrous Regiment of Women)”

— Anonymous

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,

— Wendy Doniger

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.

— Tina St. John

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

— Anthony Horowitz

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

— Anonymous

“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

— Charlie Chaplin

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

— Bill Gates

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

— James Howe

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

— Anonymous

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

— Julian Fellowes

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

— Max Lucado