Books Quotes · Page 120

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

— Anonymous

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

— Ian Frazier

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

— Clifford Geertz

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your…

— Neil Gaiman

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

— Oprah Winfrey

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay…

— Asne Seierstad

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

— Steven Saylor

“A. Huxley died at 69, much too early for such a fierce talent, and I read all his works but actually Point…

— Charles Bukowski

“If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear.…

— Stephen King

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but…

— Jeremy Robinson

First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of…

— Kathleen Robertson

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is…

— Henry Miller

“One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled with demons. They were cooking his food,…

— Pema Chödrön

“When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how…

— Sarah Arthur

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging…

— Washington Irving

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

— Mary Pilon

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

— Richard Ford

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

— Elizabeth Bowen

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

— Vikram Seth

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

— A. Edward Newton

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

— Anonymous

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

“Read more than you write, live more than you read”

— Junot Díaz

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“reading books chronically understimulates the senses.”11”

— Nicholas Carr

“So far I’ve only read a page but I like that page a lot.”

— Geoff Dyer

“Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”

— Laini Taylor

“I like simple things, books, being alone, or someone who understands.”

— Daphne du Maurier

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

— Malala Yousafzai

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

— Lee Child