Book Quotes · Page 319

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.”

— Margarita Engle

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

— Jim Fergus

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

— Sterling W Sill

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

— Francois Mauriac

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

— Eleanor Porter

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

— John M. Ford

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an…

— Gerald Seymour

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead'…

— Gale Anne Hurd

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or…

— Bill Bryson

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

— Siri Hustvedt

“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.”

— C. Toni Graham

You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it…

— Harry Treadaway

“He turned to see three kids at his side. Tish and the two little boys. He had to admit the boys looked…

— Charlie Higson

The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should…

— Peter Turchi

I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing…

— Gloria Goldreich

Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor…

— Valeria Luiselli

'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be…

— Becky Albertalli

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this”

— Haidji

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

— Elie Wiesel

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

— Chris Ware

Giving back or giving forward is the one true law of marketing.

— John Kremer

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

— Pete Wentz

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

— Mo Willems

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I think the Queen enjoyed my book on her father, George VI.

— Sarah Bradford

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.

— James Van Praagh

“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

— William Faulkner