Books Quotes · Page 464

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— Leslie Fiedler

[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.”

— Amit Kalantri

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

— Cheryl Mendelson

“Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing! ”

— Ripley Patton

“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting…

— Crissi Langwell

“desire for God’s presence, provision, and protection. No matter where we are, our desire should be for God because only he satisfies…

— Anonymous

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

— Chris Pavone

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so…

— Erin McKean

I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a…

— Anonymous

The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which,…

— Aravind Adiga

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they…

— Joseph Brodsky

“May Christ, indeed, be the theme of your song. CONCLUSION If you are like me, this may be the first thing in…

— Anonymous

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read.…

— John Updike

Infinitesimal braggadocio I'm but since you most likely don't understand me with using big words I use small words to say I…

— MrAwesome

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose…

— Rick Riordan

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

— Jesse Andrews

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go…

— Bernard Law Montgomery

“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of…

— David Smith

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

— Sophie Dahl

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the…

— Penn Jillette

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

— Jackie French

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

— Lurlene McDaniel

“Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don’t you think?”

— Jonathan Hull

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any…

— Hannah Howell

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

— E. M. Forster

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

— Jane Austen

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

— Robert M. Pirsig

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

— Diana Gabaldon

Life is like a Book of 3 Pages. 1st page is Birth And Last page is Death . Centre page is Empty…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

— Robert Heilbroner

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

— Taylor Caldwell

Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries.

— David Joseph Schwartz

“This book began with a vision I received one night planning a lesson for my Sunday school class at Family Ties at…

— Bryant Cornett

“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.”

— Aaron Kent