Books Quotes · Page 183

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

— Nicholas Sparks

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

— Jayne Ann Krentz

“The best marketing you can do for your book is to start writing the next one.”

— Ryan Holiday

“M. Scott Peck’s classic book People of the Lie.”

— Charles J. Chaput

One should never underestimate the power of books.

— Paul Auster

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

— Judy Blume

“Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

— Jim Rohn

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

— Alice Walker

“It's and odd thing, but however much an oficionado one may be of mysteries in book form, when they pop up in…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

— R.L. Stine

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good…

— David Byrne

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at…

— Javier Marías

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

— William S. Burroughs

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is…

— Dawn Richard

My father's next door buying my books and mother's up the street looking at wands,' said the boy. He had a bored,…

— Draco Malfoy

I wont lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.…

— Shalini

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based…

— Christopher Doyle

J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has…

— Van Morrison

Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me,…

— Patrick deWitt

“In the meantime, there are all my books..." I'd seen his books. Almost all of them had been written before his birth,…

— Meg Cabot

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling…

— Emma Donoghue

“What I'd like more than anything," he said quietly, "is for you to listen to an apology." "You have nothing to apologize…

— Lisa Kleypas

“A book fell on my head. I can only blame my shelf.”

— Sean Connery

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

— Jean Rostand

'Ninth House' is my first book for adults.

— Leigh Bardugo

“All great novels are great fairy tales.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

— Paul Simon

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.

— Diana Gabaldon

“There is not much to talk about love, but enough to write books about it.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.

— Jack Bickham

In her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world.

— E. B. Lewis

“Greitens later wrote in his book, The Heart and the Fist.”

— Tom Manion Tom Sileo

I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

— A. J. McLean

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

I read almost everything that comes my way.

— Ravi Subramanian

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable