Books Quotes · Page 258

Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

— Eric G. Wilson

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

— Jane Yolen

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

— Graham Swift

“There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it. . .”

— Mark Twain Following the Equator

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

— Cyril Connolly

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

— Bethenny Frankel

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

— Umera Ahmad

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

— Bette Midler

I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing…

— Patti Hansen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen”

— Lisa Lim

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any…

— Helen Dunmore

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

— Richelle Mead

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

— Jeffrey Archer

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that…

— Cleveland Amory

She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the…

— Anonymous

I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are…

— Stan Lee

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience…

— Elie Wiesel

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing…

— John Edgar Wideman

Love is constantly mistakened by what we see on TV or read in novels. So many people are caught up on a…

— JDWhyNot

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come…

— John Green

“During my research for this book, I discovered more than 16,000 patients die annually from the use of prescription and over-the-counter NSAIDs.…

— Gwen Olsen

“I never used an outline until I started "The Bourne Legacy" project for which I was required to write an outline. To…

— Eric Van Lustbader

I don't think you should limit what you read.

— Nate Silver

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

“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

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

— Nick McDonell

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

— Emma Thompson

“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

Where am I when I am involved in a book?

— Sven Birkerts

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

“There are never enough books to be satisfied with”

— I believe Me

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

— Jess Row

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon