Books Quotes · Page 242

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

— Jeffery Deaver

“Ili mu se sve to pričinjavalo od viška literature i manjka života?”

— Goran Petrović

“The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.”

— Carl Sagan

“Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.”

— Jordan Urtso

“Stop calling yourself an authoress. You sound like an idiotess.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“The secret ingredient in my books is, there has never been a villain.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll…

— Amelie Nothomb

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel…

— Rick Riordan

“A book is not a battle, nor is it a conquest. A book is a story, and telling it should be an…

— Rachel Aaron

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

— Melissa de la Cruz

“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!”

— Munia Khan

“Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.”

— Romaine Gary

“William Styron's book ‘Memoirs in Madness’. She underlined nearly the whole thing.”

— Bella Stumbo

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

— Will Schwalbe

I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time…

— Walter Dean Myers

I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point…

— Bob Colacello

I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on…

— Ayelet Waldman

I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise…

— Anonymous

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot…

— Sherman Alexie

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of…

— Max Lucado

There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what…

— Steve Toltz

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?”

— Karl Kraus

My favorite 'Eloise' book is probably 'Eloise in Paris.'

— Rebecca Serle

The child who is being raised strictly by the book is probably a first edition.

— Vikrant Parsai

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

— Stephen Fry

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

— Anonymous

“Apa gunanya banyak baca buku Kalau mulut kau bungkam melulu”

— Wiji Thukul

There is more than one way to burn a book.

— Ray Bradbury

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

— Marchette Chute

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

— Tim Federle

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

— John Entwistle

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

— Rebecca Skloot

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

— Andrew Pyper

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day.

— Chamfort