Books Quotes · Page 291

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

— Stellan Skarsgard

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

— Tom Helm

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

— Jimmy Fallon

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

— Gregory Maguire

“You know what? Forget the warning. Read the book. Go insane. See if I care.”

— Jonathan L. Howard

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Like any author worth a shit - she parted with a piece of her soul.”

— C.J. Roberts

If you Despise of the book dont Dispose of the book

— Kimberly Joina

“An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with…

— Carl Henegan

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to…

— Alan Gratz

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

— Eiza Gonzalez

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

— Birdy

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

— John Steinbeck

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special…

— Tillie Olsen

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather,…

— Michel Odent

I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a…

— Francisco Goldman

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We began with a warning that we must be careful not to read the book of Acts as a strict rule book…

— Timothy Keller

“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human…

— Christopher Morley

“There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was…

— Markus Zusak

As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in…

— Richard K. Morgan

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

— Fernando Pessoa

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

— Ben Okri

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

— Craig Ferguson

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“i love mermaids i cant live without books about them.”

— Tera Lynn Childs

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

“A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”

— J. A. Meyer

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

— Iris Chang

In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

— Ben Dolnick

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

— Ian Mckellen

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned.

— Ruskin Bond

“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”

— J.R. Rim

English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did

— Anonymous

“Death is a tale we must all someday read.”

— William Grave