Books Quotes · Page 339

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

— Jon McGregor

“There is a heavy price to pay for writing a bad book.”

— Tony Burgess

Always, always, always pass a good book along on to somebody else.

— Katie Piper

“A man who worships the Creator is a book signed by the Author.”

— Robert Mullin

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

— M. Night Shyamalan

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

— Ian Mcewan

“I am Zelda woman. Reader of the balls.”

— Barbra Annino

How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?

— David Schweikert

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

— Steve Bannon

“Ask a guy who his favourite authors are. If he doesn't list a single female among them, something up.”

— Stephanie Davies

Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.

— Emma Healey

Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie.

— Sarah Greene

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

— Gillian Flynn

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

— Walter Jon Williams

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Imagine you are a reader perusing reviews of a brand new title to decide if that book is right for you. All…

— Book -Bosomed in Mythbusting the Book Review System

I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the…

— Oren Moverman

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I…

— Pierre Bayard

I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people…

— Stephen Covey

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it…

— Alan Moore

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Good storytelling creates a sense of anticipation in the reader’s or viewer’s mind, and the experience is a pleasurable one for the…

— Nick Morgan

“What’s next on your reading list? Discover”

— Judy Blume

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose

“Pity the soul who finds itself with the wrong book in the wrong place”

— Anonymous

“I once wrote a book ten stories high. Each story was a story.”

— Jarod Kintz

It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.

— John Gee

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

— Stanley Williams

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

— Katie Price

“He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.”

— Sebastian Mallaby

“This raises Drummond three pegs in my book, giving him a total of three pegs.”

— Kelly St. Clare

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

“Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.”

— Tony Collins

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

— Simone Weil

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

— Alexander Smith

“All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!”

— Lev Grossman

My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

— Jay Williams