Books Quotes · Page 97

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

— David Guterson

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.”

— Macaulay

“Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery.”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”

— Holly Black

In the greatest chapter in your book, are there pages where it hurts to look?

— Blondie

I'm just such a Luddite, and I want to write books about Luddites.

— Ann Patchett

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

— Harry S. Truman

Take no heed of her… She reads a lot of books.

— Jasper Fforde

“We may not all be on the same chapter, but we should be in the same book". ~R. Alan Woods [2007]”

— R. Alan Woods

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

— N. K. Jemisin

“Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!”

— William Shakespeare

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

— Junot Diaz

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story…

— Len Wein

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

— Carson McCullers

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Only in the movies or comic books do people say they want you to go and hit somebody. All they ever say…

— Charles Brandt

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages…

— Paul Theroux

Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books,…

— Jack Pierson

I hope that by the end of reading 'Stag Dance,' you can no longer really say for sure who does or doesn't…

— Torrey Peters

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is…

— Alberto Manguel

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”

— Lisa Lutz

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

— Joe Queenan

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

— Brooke Fraser

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

— Ruth Rendell

“It takes more than genius to keep me reading a book.”

— Anonymous

“Debit the knowledge; credit the books.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“You can print a book, unfortunately you can’t print the audience”

— Benny Bellamacina

“Next best thing to a sexy man, is a sexy book!”

— Leila Lacey

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

— Michael Caine

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

— Sasha Alexander

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

— Ambrose Bierce

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

— Keith Hernandez

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it.

— Babloo

“Leaving behind books is more beautiful. There are already enough children”

— Margurete Yourcenar

“Books made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.”

— Cassandra clare