Books Quotes · Page 340

“BIG books are better.  There, I said it and it's true . ”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

— Iain Banks

“I write because I read... I read because I write ~Unknown”

— Michelle K. Pickett

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

— Virginia Woolf

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

— Will Smith

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

— Liam Gallagher

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

— Greg Egan

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

— George Sarton

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I…

— John Banville

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

— Audrey Niffenegger

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

— Hank Green

One of my favorite sci-fi books is 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. I would recommend it to anyone who loves sci-fi.…

— Alan Schaaf

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

— E. O. Wilson

I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have…

— Rex Stout

One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word -…

— George Saunders

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I…

— Cheryl Strayed

“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht…

— Anne Bradstreet

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of…

— Marian Keyes

“The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside…

— Alan Jacobs

“I am yet to find one reliable friend in this crowd of shifting strangers. I have no true friends only mimicries, users…

— Crystal Evans

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a…

— Joseph Addison

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

— Mark Skousen

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

— Tony Hillerman

“Booiks are how you dream, while you are awake.”

— Tahlea

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

— Jose Bergamin

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

Anyone doesn't teach you much more quickly as the book of life,

— Mak_786

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

— Eugenio Montale

“Books, I think, are what magic smells like.”

— Millie Florence

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

— M. H. Abrams

“You won't be able to put this book down!”

— Nicola McGunnigle

I would love to take time off to write a book.

— Giuliana Rancic

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

— John Hodgman

I think women love to read love stories.

— E. L. James

“The stuff was tremendous, like drinking your favorite book.”

— Neal Stephenson

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

— Dylan Thomas

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams