Books Quotes · Page 1,278

Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not…

— Ellen Hopkins

“One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subject of…

— Helen Keller

Brandon McCaw did a portrait on a start ofhe period was marked by an astonishing breadth and vitality in cultural life for…

— Brandon McCaw

“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough…

— Nnedi Okorafor

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write…

— Miranda Cosgrove

I think that's the process of filmmaking all the way through: building things and taking it apart and building it, and, you…

— Kelly Reichardt

“The author of the book of job wrestles with such questions. Can faith in God be free of ulterior motives and interests?…

— Dorothee Soelle

A dislike button especially after the quote doesnt mean the lack of thinking of its writer but it probably describes the ignorance…

— Vikrant Parsai

I always have a problem playing text-heavy games. I'm a slow reader. I don't speak English well. As a kid in China,…

— Jenova Chen

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a…

— Nick Earls

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about…

— Hazel Rochman

“It is the fate of all authors to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this…

— Paulette Jiles

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has…

— Terry Pratchett

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it…

— Simon Travaglia

“A best-selling “pocket book,” published in London, was widely read in the American colonies in the 1700s. It was called Advice to…

— Howard Zinn

My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always…

— Sandra Cisneros

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;…

— Jane Austen

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the…

— Edward Bok

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers, so…

— Geoff Johns

“The end product of biblical Christianity is a person—not a book, not a building, not a set of principles or a system…

— Leonard Sweet

My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater…

— Haven Kimmel

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to…

— Martin Gardner

“They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful…

— Neil Gaiman

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly…

— Harlan Coben

“Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise,…

— Alfred Gough

“To hold you. To smell your hair and hope you don’t notice and think I’m some sort of psychotic. To watch the…

— Liz Reinhardt

“For every book here she had heard their voices, father's and mother's. And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what…

— Eudora Welty

“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come,…

— Dave Eggers

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose…

— David Morrell

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

— Charles Caleb Colton

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import…

— Taiye Selasi

“I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read…

— Jane Austen

I loved the book [The Adderall Diaries] I optioned it, I think some years ago. But there's a lot of different threads…

— James Franco

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great…

— Ford Madox Ford

I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read…

— Jonathan Franzen

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle…

— Stefan Petrucha

The blonde student went to the library and checked out a book called How to Hump. She got back to her dorm…

— Nikhil Saluja