Books Quotes · Page 335

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

— Jennifer Weiner

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

— Daniel Clowes

“In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.”

— Andy Seven

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

— Manuel Puig

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

— Suheir Hammad

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,

— Andrea Hirata

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not…

— Nicole Krauss

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

— Neil Patrick Harris

As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a…

— Yung Lean

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

— Sarah Pinborough

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

— Matthew Specktor

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

— Manuel Puig

“The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one's pants to the seat of one's chair”

— Anonymous

“How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.…

— Anne Rice

But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca.…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance.…

— Graydon Carter

“If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It…

— James Hampton

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in…

— Marcus G Monroe

“And as theories go this was all very fine and pleasant until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and…

— Anonymous

“With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading…

— J.E Allen

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for…

— Daniel Handler

“D.L Sparks author of All That Glitters.”

— Angel Mechelle

“I have seen unicorns, but only in books.”

— Jennifer Clark and Stephonie Williams

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

— Gao Xingjian

It's better to have your nose in a book, than in someone else's business .

— Adam Stanley

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

— Anne Sexton

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

— Susan Sontag

In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.

— Adwoa Aboah

I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

— Junot Diaz

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

“pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,”

— Anonymous

I am very adventurous with authors, but not very with genres.

— Ravi Subramanian

“By the hairy ass of lord hell." Many characters in the Deverry Cycle Novels”

— Katharine Kerr

I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'

— Christian Borle

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

— Yann Martel

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

— Lois Lowry