Books Quotes · Page 173

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

— Nancy Kress

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To read someone else's work is good, to have them read yours is amazing!”

— Rishi Barua

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

— Robert Frost

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

— Charles Clarke

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

— Josh Hutcherson

“Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.”

— Tom Greer

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

— Ben Miller

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes.…

— Mark Haddon

“It wasn't that she was shallow, exactly, but everyone knows, looks are important for media work...”

— Faith Hogan

“This book has awoken something in me. I don't know what it is, but it feels good.”

— C.M. Stunich

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and…

— Calvin Trillin

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book.…

— Jennifer Weiner

I don't think I have anything to prove, per se, but I would like to make more things, whether it be TV…

— Quinta Brunson

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

— David Gelernter

I am an open book , unscripted with many mistakes, read me and you will find what makes me unique. Cause my…

— Moyo Adekoya

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the…

— Michael Sheen

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The book will be a demonstration that children, without being coerced or manipulated, or being put in exotic, specially prepared environments, or…

— John Holt

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book…

— John Irving

To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of…

— Walt Whitman

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend…

— Konnie Huq

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

— Richard de Bury

“If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!”

— Anonymous

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

— Nora Ephron

“Is there a purpose to this visit, or may I return to my book?”

— Sarah J. Maas

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.”

— Henry Stevens

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

— Stephen Fry

“You didn’t complain when I came to keep you warm last night, author”

— Chris d'Lacey

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

— Caroline Kennedy

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell