Books Quotes · Page 229

“I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.”

— Owl City

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

— Penelope Lively

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

— Jim Lehrer

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray

“Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled”

— Charles Dickens

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there…

— Nas

“Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.”

— Anne Lamott

I find it strange when people call 'signatures' autographs. An autograph is when mickey signs your book. Not for papers at the…

— Sarah Hyland

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the…

— Oscar Wilde

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to…

— Salman Rushdie

“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me…

— Elif Batuman

“O blessed idleness! Divine lazy nymph! Reach me a novel as I lie in my dressing-gown at three o'clock in the afternoon;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Damn, I know. I remember your mountains of books. I want to build you a library." Jack lowered his mouth and kissed…

— Natasha Boyd

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or…

— Irvine Welsh

“Her boy—this child she raised on her own, in whom she placed her purest faith, to whom she read on countless evenings…

— Stephanie Dupal

“I'm profoundly attracted to classical Zen literature, I have the gall to lecture on it and the literature of Mahayana Buddhism one…

— J.D. Salinger

“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and…

— Frank Kermode

“My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the…

— Pat Conroy

“I must add, too, that the only purpose of the book is to solve the intellectual problem raised by suffering; for the…

— Business and Leadership Publishing

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

— Caroline Kennedy

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Anonymous

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

— Sophie Dahl

“Grace will always make the difference Book Only by grace”

— Solomon Teddy Osei

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

— Amy Klobuchar

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

— Anonymous

Books seem so much more interesting in the book store.

— Anonymous

“But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.”

— John Green

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

— S. E. Hinton

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

— Japanese Proverb

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

— A.M. Homes

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on”

— Helene Hanff

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

— Ben Miller

“Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.”

— Tom Greer