Books Quotes · Page 1,378

“Books; what a jolly company they are, Standing so quiet and patient on their shelves, Dressed in dim brown, and black, and…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“book (you are SO going to need a copy of this!) The Boat Owner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual. This is the sea…

— Rick Page

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is…

— Charles de Lint

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was…

— Mark Twain

Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics…

— Bertolt Brecht

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always…

— Samuel Johnson

There's a book called 'The Baron in the Trees.' A friend got that for me because I was kind of a tree-dwelling…

— Borns

As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote…

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a…

— Rebecca West

“War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination” – Eric Partridge, famous lexicographer and author who served in the Australian Imperial…

— Eric Partridge

Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where…

— Nancy Milford

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest…

— John Burroughs

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction…

— Peter Sotos

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity…

— Tristan Tzara

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still...…

— Mickey Spillane

“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing…

— Anthony Horowitz

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're…

— Cassandra Clare

“Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies,…

— Jodi Picoult

“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing…

— G.K. Chesterton

When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and…

— Dawn Richard

“ Just So You Know You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even…

— Elena Ferrante

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced…

— Giles Andreae

I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the…

— Geoff Johns

I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual…

— Harold Bloom

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures…

— Henry Morton Stanley

“A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.…

— Edward Abbey

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -…

— August Strindberg

“To the right off of west bound Jefferson Avenue there were still neighborhoods that served as the gateway to hell. Where black…

— Stephen Mack Jones

“What I find difficult, when I read, is to encounter other people’s achievements passed off as one’s own. I find it difficult…

— Ben Marcus

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.…

— William Trevor

“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,…

— Susan Orlean

“- Do you have books? - books on what? books on comets? - anything ... comets, gravity, black holes... - Yeah, I've…

— Coherence

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first…

— Ashwin Sanghi

A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his…

— S. R. Ranganathan

I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my…

— Kara DioGuardi

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and…

— Jeff Dunham

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love'…

— Isaac Hanson