Books Quotes · Page 275

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

— Mark Twain

Those who read this, It means I love you

— Anonymous

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

— Henry James

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

— Paulo Coelho

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

— H. L. Mencken

“Reading,” I said. “Books. It’s pretty sexy. I like women who read.” - Rip”

— Kailin Gow

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”

— T.S. Eliot

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and…

— Francois Fenelon

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

— Louis Leakey

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! I almost bounced clear outta the book! Some bouncin', huh? [after he tries to jump out of the book while climbing…

— Tigger

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to…

— Richard Adams

“The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.”

— Anthony Powell

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write…

— Max Lucado

“Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had…

— Vladimir Nabokov

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance…

— Bernard Malamud

“I left the house at around midnight and crept up the driveway to the road. I wore canvas sneakers, athletic socks, safari…

— Donald Antrim

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often…

— Gary Frank

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible.…

— Frank Conroy

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements…

— Nicholas Sparks

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a…

— Anne Rice

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm…

— Lynn Abbey

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

“Friends can betray you but books are always loyal”

— Wang Gho Zhen

It's like I'm frozen, while the whole world is still going on around me.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

— Lionel Barber

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

— Lisa Scottoline

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Whores wear read… Pink’s just red with some cream mixed in, you silly slut.”

— Cara McKenna

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

— Ann Patchett

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Before you can write, you have to be able to read.”

— D.M. Russ

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.

— Lauren Jauregui

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

— Bruce Boxleitner

“Crud. He’d read her mind. He was a Jedi!”

— Jaime Jo Wright

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

— Marie Kondo