Books Quotes · Page 287

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

— Maxim Gorky

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“Fred Kofman, a former MIT professor and author of Conscious Business”

— Sheryl Sandberg

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

— Stuart Taylor

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

— Anonymous

“Because reality has no authority there. My imagination controls everything.”

— Samantha Young

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

— George Stephen

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

— Neil Patrick Harris

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war,…

— Fred Hammond

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

— Samuel Johnson

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

— Ruth Rendell

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

— Elaine Pagels

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the…

— Anatole Broyard

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's…

— Amber Benson

“will wear you out in a hurry. But because I make my living writing books, I would really like to ask your…

— Subjudica House

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what…

— Mac Barnett

“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address,…

— Gregory Maguire

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a…

— Franny Billingsley

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel…

— Jonathan Dee

“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the…

— Nicole Krauss

“My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

“The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”

— Edward Abbey

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

— Emma Donoghue

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

— Jim Harrison

“Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

— David Mitchell

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

— Sara Nelson

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

— William Shakespeare

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

— David Shields

“Among the bound pages - I am set free.”

— Crystal Decker

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

— Cornelia Funke

If you want to understand the Bible, get to know the Author.

— Nikhil Saluja

You can always read a person by what comes out his mouth.

— Rod Wave

Studying means: to text, to eat and to watch TV with an open book neatby.

— Michael Angelo De Leon

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

— Walter J. Ong