Books Quotes · Page 62

“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books…

— Wendell Berry

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

— Alessandro Baricco

“A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.”

— Los Angeles Times

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in…

— Vic Mensa

“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

— Nora Ephron

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

— John Milton

If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that…

— Shepard Fairey

A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man'…

— Edgar Wright

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I…

— Daniel Handler

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— Leslie Fiedler

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's…

— Robert Cormier

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

— Alfred de Vigny

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong…

— Soman Chainani

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered…

— Frank Bruni

“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with…

— Ray Bradbury

In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is…

— Ken Kalfus

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up…

— Kiran Desai

I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem,…

— Roger Ross Williams

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

— Tana French

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

— Clive James

When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had…

— Jacob Epstein

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

— Judy Blume

“Do you remember the books from our childhood? Those were you could decide yourself what the character should do next? I always…

— Lena Goetz

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend…

— R. A. Salvatore

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book.…

— Jim Beaver

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy…

— Marilyn Hacker

“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world,…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A novel is an impression, not an argument.”

— Thomas Hardy

There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.

— Colson Whitehead

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

— Julia Glass

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

— Phillip Lopate

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

— Ang Lee

“EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER ONE MY LIFE ON CRAIGSLIST Stars and Cards Never Lie Date: 2011-04-1, 9:17PM EST Reply to: [email protected] Life and…

— Alexandra Ares

I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks…

— Patrick Rothfuss