Books Quotes · Page 331

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

— Steve Aoki

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

— J. K. Rowling

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

— Lev Grossman

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

— David Gelernter

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

— Larry Clark

I like to read the situation and play accordingly.

— Vijay Shankar

This makes me smile every time I read it:)

— Anonymous

An aphorism and its author aren't joined by a dash, but separated by it.

— John Alejandro King

MOVE ON. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book - just turn the pages. :)

— Anonymous

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

— Danzy Senna

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

— Grace Paley

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years…

— Lauren Conrad

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to…

— Henry Miller

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

— Thomas Paine

“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting…

— Ksenia Anske

Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading…

— Signe Baumane

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.…

— Philip Pullman

Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell…

— Jim Trelease

“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made…

— Peter Heller

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began…

— Carl Sandburg

“What is the verdict of the vastest mind? Silence: the book of fate is closed to us. Man is a stranger to…

— Voltaire

I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want…

— Jamie Dimon

I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on…

— Van Heflin

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

— William Randolph Hearst

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

“Books are the best friends a girl could have.”

— Andrea Heltsley

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.

— Roger Tory Peterson

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

— David Foster Wallace

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

— Anonymous

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”

— Plato

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Reader beware, reader bewildered…Read no further or reader be hindered.”

— Michael Devaney

“Good books and good friends were critical in Lewis’s conversion.”

— Devin Brown

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

— John Burns

“While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.”

— Sara Sheridan

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

— Jeanette Winterson