Books Quotes · Page 269

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

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

— Miranda July

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Nancy Kress

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

— Rishi Barua

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey…

— Joyce Meyer

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of…

— H. L. Mencken

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

— Mayte Garcia

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

— Catherynne M. Valente

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I’m not trying to evoke emotions in the reader. My job is to bring about an understanding through pictures.”

— Michael Siegel

To read a piece of material from a period drama told from the woman's perspective is just so unique.

— Jodie Comer

“Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with…

— Jasper Fforde

“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family…

— J.L. Mac

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what…

— Craig Ferguson

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody…

— Michael Dirda

It wasn't that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of…

— Jason Reynolds

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my…

— Donald Miller

“I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader…

— Anonymous

“Comic book writers often suggest that women don’t have the same dedication to the noble cause, because their need for love is…

— Mike Madrid

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

— Tom Shadyac

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

— Anonymous

“Good friends, good books and ability to sleep peacefully is good life.”

— Nitya Prakash

I could write several books about my life.

— Bob Christo

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

— Emily Giffin

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

— Penelope Lively

“I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.”

— Owl City

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

— Mitch Hedberg

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant