Book Quotes · Page 221

Any time you have any type of record in any record book, especially with the Lakers, it is pretty special.

— Kyle Kuzma

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with…

— Thomas Gray

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

— George Orwell

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

— John Steinbeck

Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.

— Simon Sinek

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

— Max Hastings

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think…

— Maria Edgeworth

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz…

— Michael Easton

Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children.…

— John Shelby Spong

One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on…

— Aimee Bender

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with…

— William Saroyan

“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that…

— Atwood H. Townsend

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids…

— Trista Sutter

I think that one of the things that my dad was grappling with towards the end was how that shift had happened…

— John Buffalo Mailer

“You, the reader, make the book, but the book does not in itself exist between these decomposing covers. You read the script,…

— Jason Henderson

Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt.…

— Jenny Lawson

I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and…

— Anonymous

I made some changes, I didn't go around telling everybody I was ready to make changes, I just remained me. I may…

— Reginald Arvizu

It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket,…

— David Sedaris

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…

— Anna Quindlen

My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find…

— Neil Gaiman

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

Life has many different chapters for us...one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book

— Mercy Pheona

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to…

— Edward Klein

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

— Chinua Achebe

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

— Mason Cooley

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”

— Elizabeth Hunter

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

— Stephen Hawking

Please don't slap me, I'm a red blooded male and the book said I could not fail.

— Genesis

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

— Jacqueline Woodson