Books Quotes · Page 130

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

— Ben Aaronovitch

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

— Judy Blume

One should never underestimate the power of books.

— Paul Auster

“M. Scott Peck’s classic book People of the Lie.”

— Charles J. Chaput

“The best marketing you can do for your book is to start writing the next one.”

— Ryan Holiday

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

— Jayne Ann Krentz

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

— Nicholas Sparks

“When you read a book, its like a viewing in your head.”

— Travion Rucker

I don't need you to love me. I don't want you to hate me, but just don't judge a book by its…

— Christian Laettner

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

— Anthony Browne

“The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making…

— Dean Koontz

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

— George Stephen

“Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated.…

— Neil Gaiman

“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.”

— Joscelyn Gleave

For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I…

— Jeanette Winterson

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if…

— Mike Holmgren

“I explored the literature of tree-climbing, not extensive, but so exciting. John Muir had swarmed up a hundred-foot Douglas Spruce during a…

— Robert Macfarlane

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning,…

— Josh Gad

“Yeah, we better hurry this up so she doesn’t get jealous,” I reply with a smile, pleased that I’m bantering. That book…

— Ruth Clampett

The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the…

— Bel Kaufman

“This is not another book about seeking fulfillment in your singleness. As beings created in God’s image, we were designed for relationship—that’s…

— Candace Watters

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

— Jerome Charyn

“There was something sexy as hell about us well read book sluts.”

— Haylie Harbour

I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

— A. J. McLean

“Greitens later wrote in his book, The Heart and the Fist.”

— Tom Manion Tom Sileo

In her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world.

— E. B. Lewis

Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.

— Jack Bickham

“There is not much to talk about love, but enough to write books about it.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.

— Diana Gabaldon

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

— Paul Simon

“All great novels are great fairy tales.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

'Ninth House' is my first book for adults.

— Leigh Bardugo

“A book fell on my head. I can only blame my shelf.”

— Sean Connery

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

— Jean Rostand

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn