Books Quotes · Page 419

“The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.”

— Tiffini Johnson

The story of you life has many chapters. One bad chapter does not mean that its the end to your book.

— Anonymous

I've read both books that 'Beautiful Boy' is based on, and I can't wait to see that film. I root for that…

— Peter Hedges

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

— Parker Conrad

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting…

— Jimmy Carr

I talk about past relationships in my book, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who…

— Gigi Gorgeous

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,

— Nelson DeMille

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to…

— Louise Erdrich

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift…

— Bob Smith

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before…

— Jack McDevitt

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more…

— Michael Scott

“In the book of Job, God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question…

— Octavia E. Butler

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job…

— Ken Liu

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

— Anonymous

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

— Anonymous

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

— Jason Mitchell

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

— Thiruvalluvar

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

— Ann Patchett

“Book publishing is a passion that one hopes eventually becomes a good paying job.”

— Steven Magee

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read…

— James Gunn

I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

— E. M. Forster

“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders…

— Ivan Doig

(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

— Emily Giffin

“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's…

— John Gaddis

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in…

— Billy Burke

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

— Anonymous

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my…

— H. P. Lovecraft

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

— Stephen Chbosky

My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

— Sandra Brown

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

— Flannery O'Connor

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you…

— Matt Cain

“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes…

— Neil Gaiman

“Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”

— John Denham

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

— Karen Russell

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle…

— Ray Bradbury