Books Quotes · Page 216

The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.

— Jeff Giles

“He's a liar for a living, all authors are.”

— Karina Halle

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

— Walter Benjamin

“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

— Barbara Park

“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.”

— Terri Costola

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

— John Cheever

“This book is a very enjoyable read - I read it in a weekend. Eveline Maedel”

— Vicki M. Taylor

“AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I love antiheroes. Female characters who don't just accept their faults, but downright exploit them. No nice boys. No…

— Lime Craven

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four…

— Tony Buzan

“I sometimes think my style is suggestive rather than direct. The reader must often use his imagination or lose the most subtle…

— Ernest Hemingway

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

— Carlos Fuentes

“I am in this world, but no longer of this world.” ========== The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel (Mitchell, David)”

— Anonymous

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have…

— E. Nesbit

The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.

— Francis X Clines

Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success…

— Anonymous

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues…

— Kevin Young

Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the…

— Anna Todd

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important,…

— Scott Spencer

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I…

— Peter David

“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you…

— Dorothy Bryant

As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life…

— Kim Edwards

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a…

— Gregory Benford

Life is like a Book.Don't try to open my book if you are not going to read it

— Sushan Sharma

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

— Ibn Warraq

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I used to read my poems to him; now I read him in my poems”

— Shweta Suvarna

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :))

— Reader's Digest

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A book is like a treasure chest, waiting to be opened and discovered.”

— Kitty Paw

“After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.”

— Anonymous

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

— John Burnside

“What do you read for pleasure? Kama Sutra.”

— Jonathan Dunne

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

— Charlie Kaufman

“I hope you read some fine book and kiss someone that thinks you're wonderful”

— Anonymous

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.”

— Sara Sheridan