Books Quotes · Page 201

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

— Eric G. Wilson

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

— Michael Dirda

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

— James Lee Burke

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

“Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.”

— Sandra Alex

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

— William Safire

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

— Michael Ealy

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

— Virginia Woolf

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

— Dean Koontz

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

— Jonathan Franzen

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years…

— May Sarton

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths…

— Ernest Hemingway

Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But…

— Tom Clancy

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;…

— Abraham Lincoln

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they…

— John le Carre

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'…

— Ruth Glick

The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes…

— Robert Benchley

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in…

— Charles Todd

I don't think you should limit what you read.

— Nate Silver

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

— Umera Ahmad

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

— Sara Paretsky

Dreams are the illusions in the book your soul is writing about you.

— Anonymous

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader

— Ernest Hemingway

I studied literature design and fashion design.

— Danielle Steel

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

— Patrick Ness

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

— William Shakespeare

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk