Book Quotes · Page 209

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way…

— Al Seckel

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.”

— Lionel Shriver

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

— Stephenie Meyer

Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

— Maxim Gorky

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

— Edward Abbey

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

— E. M. Forster

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football,…

— Gregg Easterbrook

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument…

— Saul Bellow

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in…

— Anne Tyler

“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured…

— Janet Fitch

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one…

— Louis L'Amour

In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that…

— Khaled Hosseini

My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms…

— Hilary Mantel

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into…

— Rick Wakeman

I do a lot of work in travel and tourism, and I think this story is in the book. This woman is…

— Frank Luntz

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing with the same result over and over again, expecting something different. The left…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very…

— Danielle Dutton

My hope is that the film Wall Street 2 will actually serve as a way for us to bridge that gap between…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard…

— Virginia Madsen

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing…

— Roald Dahl

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,

— Henry Jenkins

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

— Ronald Fisher

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

— William Shakespeare

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

— Wilbur Smith

“If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.”

— John Green

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

— James Salter

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

— David Mitchell

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

— Emma Thompson

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

“another book is another dimension. another life full of imagination.”

— Kevin Armando

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

— Saint Augustine

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for…

— Dick Bruna

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

— Caroline Mytinger

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami