Books Quotes · Page 437

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to…

— Robert Solow

“Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.”

— Ellie Ann

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

— Natalie Goldberg

I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

— Naomi Alderman

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— Anonymous

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

— Erica Jong

It doesnt matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books

— Anonymous

“A mnogo je bolje da knjiga bude pas nego zlatna ribica. S psom, naime, možete komunicirati, on vam uzvraća ljubav, vaše se…

— Pavao Pavličić

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that…

— Ernest Hemingway

The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different…

— Stan Lee

Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I…

— Alissa Quart

I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it…

— Bobby McFerrin

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had…

— Alice Walker

“Is this what I am doing now? Watching the currents, passages of life around me. I am not looking for books to…

— Robert Trabold

I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including…

— Justine Larbalestier

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

— Robert Darnton

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

— Samuel Butler

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

— John Rhys-Davies

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction…

— Peter Morgan

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

— David Mitchell

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

— Georg Brandes

I have a major crush on Steve Carell. Hysterical. He could read me the phone book and I would laugh.

— Jamie Lynn Sigler

“Strategic Thinking deals with discovering novel, rewriting the rules of the competitive game.”

— Pearl Zhu

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and…

— Ann Coulter

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live…

— Siri Hustvedt

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

— Joseph Heller

'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so…

— Godfrey Gao

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place…

— James Frey

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was…

— Prue Leith

“Of course! Isn’t that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

When me and my sister were toddlers, it was 'The Jungle Book' literally every day. If it was lunchtime, it was 'Jungle…

— George MacKay

I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels.

— Torrey Peters

“Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I would never end a book with "sexy". I would end it with love. It's just not my style.”

— Candie Kisses

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards…

— Alice Munro

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

— Casey Affleck

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

— Richard Helms