Books Quotes · Page 458

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.”

— Daniel Sean Kaye

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the…

— Alan Rusbridger

“Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.”

— Marjorie Taylor

I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was…

— Alex Sharp

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork.…

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for…

— Henry James

Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book…

— Anonymous

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get…

— Salman Rushdie

When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make…

— Luis Gonzalez

Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you…

— Yusef Lateef

“After Bailey came Samuel Johnson, His Cantankerousness. Son of a London bookseller, a university dropout, afflicted with depression and what modern doctors…

— Kory Stamper

“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading…

— Steve Kendall

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains…

— Julian Barnes

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader…

— Jonathan Lethem

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

— Louise Mensch

“Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library; read them.”

— Mensah Oteh

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

— A. Edward Newton

“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.”

— Martin Myers

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers,

— Gale Anne Hurd

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that…

— Margaret Atwood

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

— Khaled Hosseini

Why want the guy in the book? Their just made belife and fake. Want the real guy

— Angelique

“The reader must be reminded that it takes a good 'mind' to be 'insane'. Morons, imbeciles, and idiots are 'mentally' deficient, but…

— Alfred Korzybski

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw”

— Jan Karon

“If one does not know how to read the account (karmic) book, then he will start to have doubts, and doubts lead…

— Dada Bhagwan

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

— Duane Michals

I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work…

— John C. Maxwell

“All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so many of us…

— Stephen Minkin

“And that is just the list of federal criminal statutes; the states have an even greater number of crimes on the books.”

— James Duane

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

— Abraham Pais

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

— J.A. Konrath

“Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number?”

— Henry D. Spalding

“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the…

— Nicola Haken

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:…

— Anonymous

Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support…

— Jennifer Armintrout

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk…

— Alain de Botton

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

— Scarlett Johansson