Books Quotes · Page 294

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

— Daphne du Maurier

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

— Jasper Fforde

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

— Jack Vance

A skilled teacher and a few good books can always cure ignorance.

— Vikrant Parsai

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

— Marcel Proust

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

— Martin Mull

“... the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all…

— James Lee Burke

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

— Hugh Mackay

“You're so completely going to be in Slytherin." "I'm so completely going to be in Ravenclaw, thank you very much. I only…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”

— Robert Burton

“This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,”

— Peter Rollins

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

— Michael Holroyd

There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.

— Rulon Gardner

“Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the…

— Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,…

— Don DeLillo

“Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazard from the shelf, but with Nabokov's first sentence I knew it wasn't…

— Jane Kenyon

“ … The best pieces in [Queeries] - such as … Raymond John Woolfrey’s “Pages from My Window: Red Geraniums” - are…

— John Woolfrey

“book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I…

— Rosalyn D'Mello

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but…

— Fay Wray

“Stevenson had originally conceived the novel as a straightforward horror yarn, involving a thief that invents a potion that changes his physical…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Stilletos of a frozen stillicide [...] In the lovely line heading this comment the reader should note the last word. My dictionary…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Millions of books written on every conceivable subject by all these great minds and in the end, none of them knows anything…

— Woody Allen

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

— Per Petterson

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

— Eric Kandel

“First lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.”

— Stephanie Butland

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

— Robert Holman

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

— George Stephen

“The great thing about book burnings is, they still have to buy the books.”

— Anonymous

“Books are where words live. I read to see who's home.”

— Tom Van Dyke

'War and Peace' is a life-changing book. You do have time to read it. Digest

— Nyakallo Lets'ela

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

— Sara Sheridan

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

— Norton Juster

“…only then did I wake out of the book.”

— John McGahern

“A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor”

— T.Q. Bernier

I'm a huge comic book fan and fanatic, and so are my cousins.

— Joivan Wade

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

“I've read two books a week for 30 years…I'm satisfied I know everything.”

— Kaye Gibbons