Books Quotes · Page 195

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

— Philip Larkin

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A book can be an escape from the house.”

— Dore Ashton

The Koran is a book of peace. It is a prophetic book of peace,

— Pope Francis

Authors should be honored only for their works.

— John Updike

“No one is as smart as all of us. -Seth Godin, author/entrepreneur”

— Jason Fried

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

— Zayn Malik

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

— Henry Ford

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book…

— Paul Gauguin

I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions…

— Alexandra Bracken

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My…

— Steve Harvey

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

— Lois Lowry

“loved thick books, dusty statues, even the musty smell in the air. Libraries were treasure troves of knowledge and imagination.”

— Robert E. Keller

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez

“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.”

— Neil Gaiman

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by…

— Jane Austen

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like…

— rilke

“P. and J. did not like books set in large type with wide margins, such as pleased readers of more refined tastes,…

— Albert Camus

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— Phylicia Rashad

“Faith in a written revelation is a real, unfeigned, and so far respectable faith, only where it is believed that all in…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of…

— Aldous Huxley

This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the…

— Nat Hentoff

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.”

— Studs Terkel

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

— Gillian Flynn

“Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.”

— Stacey T. Hunt

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...

— Alain de Botton

“Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.”

— Alice Hoffman

“There is more to writing a book than just writing a book.”

— John Morris Benson

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

— Anonymous

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

— Mary Higgins Clark

“No book is written; it's always re-written”

— Jean Fullerton

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

— Marshall McLuhan

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

— Geoffrey Beene

If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters.

— Anonymous

I used to bring my books to the shoot and used to study in between the shots.

— Hina Khan

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

— Carol Shields

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

— Deb Caletti