Books Quotes · Page 129

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

— Kristin Hannah

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

— Lois Lowry

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Before you can write, you have to be able to read.”

— D.M. Russ

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.

— Lauren Jauregui

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

— Bruce Boxleitner

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their…

— Randy Alcorn

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made…

— Norman Mailer

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant,…

— Virginia Woolf

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

— Lena Dunham

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

— Vince Vaughn

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

— Richard Dawkins

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

— Tony Parsons

“You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.”

— Mary Papas

“...the materials of genre - specifically the paired genres of horror and the fantastic - in no way require the constrictions of…

— Peter Straub (Author

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm…

— Heidi Julavits

One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes…

— Adam Hochschild

Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier…

— Petrarch

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes…

— Thomas Sowell

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be…

— Robert Cormier

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with…

— E. B. White

“Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s The Goal, published in…

— Brad Stone

It's like I'm frozen, while the whole world is still going on around me.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Friends can betray you but books are always loyal”

— Wang Gho Zhen

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

— Lionel Barber

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

— Lisa Scottoline

“Whores wear read… Pink’s just red with some cream mixed in, you silly slut.”

— Cara McKenna

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

— Ann Patchett

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

— Paulo Coelho

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

— H. L. Mencken

“Reading,” I said. “Books. It’s pretty sexy. I like women who read.” - Rip”

— Kailin Gow

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

— Alice Hoffman

Those who read this, It means I love you

— Anonymous

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

— Mark Twain

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

— Henry James