Books Quotes · Page 313

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

— Marge Piercy

“I'm reading a book on infinity - I can' wait to see how it ends!”

— Iain Pattison

“...we all have at least one book hiding in the body”

— Ceci Miller-Kritsberg

Some people read. I like to put words together.

— Iman Shumpert

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.”

— Gary Shteyngart

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

— Gabrielle Aplin

“Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.”

— gary paulsen

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

— Oscar Wilde

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

— Sidney Sheldon

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could…

— Edmund White

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

— Anne Roiphe

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

— Sigmund Freud

I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.

— Mary Oliver

“The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so…

— Anthony Trollope

I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a…

— Susan Collins

“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages…

— Michelle Cliff

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening…

— Doug Stanton

The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to…

— James Ellroy

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who…

— Kevin Sampsell

“Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza…

— Roberto Bolaño

“You can't fight a dirty person with clean hands and expect to win. Sometimes the playing field is muddy and you got…

— J. Wrice Sr

Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing…

— David Toop

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

“come on stand up and read . Don't just sit there!”

— Jeremy Lam

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

“The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.”

— Umberto Eco

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

— Storm Jameson

“When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you”

— John van de Ruit

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

— Kellan Lutz

“autobiographical novel. He fancied himself”

— Dinesh D'Souza

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

— Penelope Lively

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

— John Green

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

— Ha Jin

“He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.”

— Richard Darman

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

— Richard Flanagan

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

— David Liss

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

— Neil Jordan