Books Quotes · Page 168

“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

— Ian Mcewan

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

— Sol LeWitt

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

— John Updike

“between the pages of a book is a lovely place to stay”

— Maredith

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

— Meg Cabot

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

— Tom Perrotta

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

— Wilson Mizner

“He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they…

— Adam Langer

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws.

— John Adams

I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books…

— Roger Scruton

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the…

— Mary Roach

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

— Doris Lessing

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just…

— Richard Russo

“As if he could read her mind, Chad chose that very moment to look up from his What to Expect book. “Says…

— Lori Ryan

I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down,…

— Michael Jackson

“I got that familiar mania - there is information somewhere here, and I can find it, I have to. A good librarian…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something…

— Jonathan D. Spence

Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written…

— Teju Cole

“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The…

— Lev Grossman

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something…

— Christopher Morley

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown…

— Rick Yancey

I read a lot of Louis L'amour Western books.

— Tee Grizzley

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

“At the moment, don't buy my books, help the people of Ukraine instead.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Everyone has a story, and I will be the author of mine.”

— Gena Showalter

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

— Oscar Wilde

“The feminine reader, who expected a melodramatic ending, may relax. October”

— Anton Chekhov

In India, we don't read thrillers; we read authors.

— Ravi Subramanian

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

— Valerie Miner

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

— Richard Yates

I will write another book if I feel like it.

— James Herriot

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

— Margaret Fuller

“Synergy between thoughts and feelings reads the universe like an opened book.”

— Toba Beta

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“A library is the temple for the learned”

— Sonakshi lahiri

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...

— Judy Blume