Books Quotes · Page 242

Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.

— Robert Collier

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

— Lisa Gardner

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

— Gary Paulsen

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

— Leslie Charteris

God is not the author of confusion but is the author of peace.

— Quentin L. Cook

Maybe one day I'll write a full-blown tell-all book.

— Ariana Madix

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

— Paul Auster

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

— Marco Arment

“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the…

— Octavio Paz

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

— Jane Smiley

“Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't…

— Melanie Kirk

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

— Dick Bruna

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can…

— Garth Greenwell

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The…

— Lev Grossman

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever…

— George Washington Carver

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have…

— Chris Evert

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come…

— Ryan Coogler

Your skin isn't paper, dont cut it. Your face isn't a mask, dont cover it. Your size isn't a book, don't judge…

— Anonymous

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;…

— Anna Quindlen

“She lifted the book to her nose. A book had a smell more soothing than any of Mrs. Hawkins's herbs. There was…

— Cindy Thomson

Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts…

— Ezra Jack Keats

“a book like this. I wish I had access to such a source”

— Anonymous

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

— Romain Rolland

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

— Regis Debray

I love being educated by historical novels.

— Debra Stephenson

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

“The more possessions, the more aggravation. Jewish prayer book.”

— Jewish religion

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

“Your calling is in what you read, think and talk about”

— Sunday Adelaja

Where am I when I am involved in a book?

— Sven Birkerts

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

— Nick McDonell

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.”

— Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

— Howard Lutnick

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

— Jess Row

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc