Books Quotes · Page 401

I feel a great connection with my readers and would never want to disappoint them.

— Emily Giffin

I'm terrible at relaxing and holidays. For me, a day off is going to the gym. I could never just lie on…

— Grigor Dimitrov

“Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.”

— Jarod Kintz

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

— Bill Peet

Doing a book signing tomorrow at Barnes & Noble. Bring your own book...I haven't written one yet.

— Daniel Tosh

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

— Milan Kundera

“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”

— Nick Hornby

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them.…

— Soman Chainani

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length…

— Patricia Highsmith

I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred…

— Richard Marshall

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a…

— Neil Postman

“One year ago, just after Carrie Fisher's passing, I dedicated my Sci-fi Thriller The First Ones There to her. When you open…

— Steven Wolff

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard…

— John Fowles

“In her book, Ask Outrageously! my friend Linda Swindling suggests to “Mimic the body language of the most powerful people you know.…

— Susan C. Young

“Dear reader, if you have ever had to tromp around on a hot golf course for hours, lugging someone else's ungainly golf…

— Jon Skovron

“Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but…

— Madi Preda

Never love someone you already loved.. It's like reading a book twice. You know just what will come next .

— Anonymous

I've always loved to read, but sometimes I go for a year without reading a book, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.

— Christopher Priest

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

— Taylor Goldsmith

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

— Alison McGhee

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

— Mary Augusta Ward

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist…

— Charles W. Chesnutt

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting…

— Francine Rivers

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

— Ravi Subramanian

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

“What is obvious about this section of the Book of Mormon is that it was borrowed from the KJV and placed in…

— Grant H. Palmer

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

— James Ellroy

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

— Tibor Fischer

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

— Anonymous

I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say…

— Grayson Perry

If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.

— Chris d'Lacey

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by…

— David Crabb

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature…

— Ken Liu

“…I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are…

— Beatrice Sparks

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck