Book Quotes · Page 604

“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the…

— Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that…

— Judy Blume

There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a…

— Rebecca Stead

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids…

— Jon Scieszka

“I got the idea from our family’s plant book. The place where we recorded things you cannot trust to memory. The page…

— Suzanne Collins

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of…

— Michael Dirda

“You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in…

— Orhan Pamuk

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and…

— David Walliams

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and…

— Agnes Repplier

“Warning: This book contains graphic language, sex, lies, intrigue, clowns, kleptomania, anal sex, oral sex, mutual masturbation, bad driving, good cooking, and…

— L.B. Gregg

The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and…

— Price Pritchett

As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books…

— Neil Gaiman

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so…

— Henry Fielding

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make…

— Alex Stapleton

It was on Long John's show that I heard Orfeo Angelucci being interviewed. In other words, the whole thing about the green…

— Paul Laffoley

GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a…

— Roger E. Olson

Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book,…

— E. Nesbit

I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock…

— Wilkie Collins

“The page of an accounts book is there for your use, like a love poem. It’s not there for you to nod…

— Hilary Mantel

I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was…

— Robin S. Sharma

There's always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and…

— Rush Limbaugh

I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point…

— Rob Lowe

“It may sound dorky, but I love books--the feel of the paper, the old, musty smell, and especially the way the words…

— Cheryl Renee Herbsman

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How…

— Sherman Alexie

I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Why does the same book elicit such a range of responses? There must be something in the particular reader that leaps out…

— Irvin D. Yalom

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in…

— Colin Firth

Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you…

— Marianne Williamson

Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the…

— Sadakat Kadri

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture…

— Lawrence Lessig

When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could…

— William Harvey

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit…

— Anne Fadiman

Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose…

— Ezra Taft Benson

When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw…

— Daniel Kehlmann

In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam…

— Mark Skousen

“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my…

— Roberto Bolaño

Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's…

— John Boyne

It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first…

— Molly Antopol