Books Quotes · Page 387

The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money…

— Paul Ormerod

As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started…

— Jed Mercurio

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy,…

— Ian Mcewan

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

— Patricia C. Wrede

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

— Lev Grossman

“No matter how much wisdom is in a book, is it right to trade your life for it?”

— Adam Gidwitz

“I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm…

— George Orwell

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again.…

— Hilary Mantel

“I would remind my reader that Donal was a Celt, with a nature open to every fancy of love or awe --…

— George MacDonald

While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would…

— Emma Healey

“More interestingly, it could be argued that, if fantasy (and debatably the literature of the fantastic as a whole) has a purpose…

— John Clute

“The first thing that the boy called Smoke told Nick Waters was: “Your biology book’s in my locker. The combination is 5-3-5.”…

— Carl Hiaasen

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland

“A Favorite start to a book [sorry it's long!]: "In yesterday’s Sunday Times, a report from Francistown in Botswana. Sometime last week,…

— Coetzee

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked…

— Greg Weisman

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as…

— Diane Setterfield

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of…

— Ksenia Anske

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

— Will Rogers

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or,…

— James Gleick

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

— James Dickey

It is until you are lost into reading you will never be found among true readers.

— Jumbo Obiesia Ukot

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

— Sergio Leone

“I adore chocolate. I require books. They are like oxygen or water, vital to my existence.”

— Lia Riley

“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

“She’s too hot, even for you. And since she’s got a book, she probably knows how to read, so she’s smart enough…

— Nicole Williams

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know,…

— Anonymous

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

— Peter R. Mansoor

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.”

— Dan Makaon

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

— Charles Dickens

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for…

— Celeste Ng

“I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.”

— Tamara Faith Berger

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

— Suze Orman

I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.

— Emily Giffin

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a…

— Katherine Paterson

“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were. Susan Glaspell, author ”

— Susan Glaspell

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

— James Frey

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea…

— Marquis de Lafayette