Books Quotes · Page 573

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a novel doesn't have well-developed three-dimensional principal characters, wouldn't it be a graphic novel without the graphics?”

— Michael Kroft

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

— Elizabeth I

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they…

— Kathryn Stockett

“You never knew what shape your enemies would take." from the book -- Black Gold of the Sun”

— Ekow Eshun

I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends.

— Sean Payton

“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.”

— Clementine Holzinger

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot…

— Khaled Hosseini

Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up…

— Monica Hesse

I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

I've been lucky enough to have made enough of these types of children's books that while I don't necessarily know what works,…

— Mo Willems

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage.…

— Francis Parkman

“Other historical characters mentioned in the novel include Denmark Vesey, who had planned a slave revolt in Charleston, and William Lloyd Garrison,…

— 5 Minute Publications

There were books all over the house, and I was always told that I could write and that it was something good…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“The sisters were stuck in approximately chapter nine of the book of their lives. It was the chapter in which they discover…

— Kevin Moffett

“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

— Zoe Kazan

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we…

— Robert Orben

I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.

— Andrew Shaffer

“For someone who wrote a novel with a superhero named “Dark Lightning,” you wouldn’t think a thunderstorm would make me so nervous.”

— J.M. Richards

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

— Harriet Martineau

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I…

— Louisa May Alcott

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

— Sara Gruen

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to…

— Natalie Massenet

“I find the lack of bees in this book disturbing. But I guess the gay unicorns were okay.”

— Sophie Peele

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

“The subtlety of your analysis of variance will not move readers to tears, although the tediousness of it might.”

— Paul J. Silvia

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

— Colleen Hoover

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal…

— Lewis Carroll

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and…

— Michiel Huisman

“It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the…

— Carew Papritz

“Give yourself a break from any holy book; and start looking at others as you want to be looked at.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.”

— Jerome Groopman

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

— Amish Tripathi

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done,…

— Naomi Klein

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's…

— Terry Pratchett