Books Quotes · Page 262

“Just because it's a novel--can't it also be different?”

— John Deaton

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder

“Pick a shelf and I'll read all about you.”

— Aphrile

“Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians.”

— Paul J. Silvia

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“No burglar wastes his time burgling authors.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.”

— Anonymous

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

— Neil Young

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of…

— Khalil

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

— Arthur Phillips

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

— Leslie Ludy

“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?”

— Kate Atkinson

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

— May Sarton

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

— Erin Duffy

“Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!”

— George Gissing

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving…

— Justin Cronin

“I have come to judge a good story as one that makes me feel as if I'm losing a friend when I…

— Tom Ryan

“Last month I was banging on about how books were better than anything—-how just about any decent book you picked would beat…

— Nick Hornby

“His face is more open than an open book, like a wall of graffiti really. I realize I'm writing wow on my…

— Jandy Nelson

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life…

— Laura Kinsale

“Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life horror has no more form than it does…

— Richard Flanagan

I’m frankly sick of all the books and movies trying to predict when Jesus will return and we’ll get to start our…

— Mark Driscoll

“Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“THE ORIGINS of this book go back to a casual lunch on the Stanford campus–Thai food eaten outdoors, a sunny and pleasant…

— Anonymous

Everybody knows how to read but not everybody knows how to understand.

— Anonymous

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.

— Daniel Radcliffe

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

— Anatole France

I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.

— Colman Domingo

“this book is really interesting(especially for holocaust lovers)”

— Sonia Levitin

“I'm still writing about you and you haven't read a word.”

— Travis Grant

“I always tell people JFK's book 'Profiles in Courage' was a very slim volume.”

— Larry J. Sabato

“I was born a dribbler, became a reader, now I write.”

— Joseph Hagen

There are a lot of books showing on how to live longer, but none on why.

— Vikrant Parsai

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

— Mason Cooley

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

— R. Scott Bakker

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

— Neal Shusterman

“I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.

— Robert Collier

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

— Agatha Christie