Books Quotes · Page 307

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

— Sarah Pinborough

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

— Tulisa

Literature is an art of word; philosophy is an art of thought.

— Ilkin Santak

“I know a few things about normal kids. Hell, I could write a book about them.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

— Jonathan Glazer

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

— John M. Ford

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly…

— Isaac D'Israeli

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

— Margaret Atwood

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.”

— Stuart Aken

“Sixteen pages! Full sixteen pages! If you don't want to read, use it to make paper bags.Sell the paper pabs and earn…

— Aziz Nesin

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.

— Robert Paul Weston

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

— Rudy Giuliani

“Unto my Books-so good to turn- Far ends of tired Days- It half endears the Abstinence- And Pain-is missed-in Praise- As Flavors-cheer…

— Emily Dickinson

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As…

— Orhan Pamuk

It wasn't cool that I didn't comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool be a nerd…

— AJ Lee

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded.…

— Robert Gottlieb

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you…

— John Ratzenberger

“My goal from the outset was to write a novel that perfectly balanced crime and romance. It’s not unusual to see detectives…

— C.R. Lemons

“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is…

— Polybius

“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.”

— Margarita Engle

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

— Anthony Doerr

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

— Samuel Butler

No one likes my books except the public.

— Mickey Spillane

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

— Paula Fox

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

“I wrote a horror novel. I put the “boo” in book.”

— Jarod Kintz

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

— Gillian Flynn

“Grab a book, coz reading is wound healing. - ME”

— Nadiah Alwi

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

— Anonymous

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

— Kami Garcia

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

— Douglas William Jerrold

“I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.”

— Beatrix Potter

“Books passed through her fingers at the speed of night.”

— Kristen Costello