Books Quotes · Page 287

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

— Marian Keyes

I believe all literature started as gossip.

— Rita Mae Brown

I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.

— Mary Wiseman

“She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.”

— Anonymous

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

Life without a taste of irrational, of crazy, is a boring book.

— Mariana Fulger

“Books are for all; or Every reader his book/”

— Ranganatan

If you don't like my book, write your own.

— Rita Mae Brown

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how…

— Greta Gerwig

[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something.

— Ed Helms

“There was the union of his soul with Gloria's, whose radiant fire and freshness was the living material of which the dead…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in…

— Joy Reid

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

— S. S. Van Dine

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King…

— Maeve Binchy

“an oft-cited 2010 study on self-esteem, its authors found that college students would rather receive praise than have sex. A”

— David Zweig

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

I get so much mail from women who have lost children because one of my books is about that. There was also…

— Carol Drinkwater

Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically.…

— Mark Millar

“For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our…

— Lewis Buzbee

“Gordon W. Allport’s book, The Individual and His Religion: “The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee,…

— Deborah Harkness

I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I…

— Charles de Lint

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing…

— Gertrude Stein

I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating…

— Claire Messud

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

— John Grisham

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

— Jane Smiley

“You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.”

— Sydney Fauser

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

“Today literature must either be protest or consolation”

— Elie Wiesel

“Good books makes good life. Great books makes great life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.”

— Ronald Sukenick

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

— Gaston Leroux

“What are your favorite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?”

— Diane Setterfield

“Life isn't a pulp novel, Joe, and death isn't either.”

— Lavie Tidhar

“Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?”

— Flannery O'Connor

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

— Terry Pratchett

“In order to be heard, an author must have readers...”

— Rachel Heffington

Because I don't believe everything I read.

— Steven Wright

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

— Anne Tyler