Book Quotes · Page 258

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

— Rick Riordan

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote…

— Anonymous

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

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him…

— Anonymous

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed…

— Charlotte Mason

Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can…

— Christian Dior

Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I…

— Woody Allen

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about…

— Judy Blume

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as…

— Joseph Barrell

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only…

— Conan O'Brien

“I looked at the titles on the bookshelf and found a book on Greek mythology next to a book of poetry, which…

— Julianne Donaldson

When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people…

— Robin Sloan

“Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on…

— Veronique Vienne

I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't…

— Susannah Cahalan

I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and…

— James Ellroy

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end…

— Sara Nelson

My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some…

— Daniel Defoe

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's -…

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— Ronald Fisher

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

— Henry Jenkins

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

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

— David Mitchell

“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

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

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”

— Myra Pollack Sadker

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

— Judy Blume

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

— Anonymous