Books Quotes · Page 358

All my books center around death in some way.

— Adam Silvera

“You can't simply put a book down or away.”

— Rick Gekoski

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

— Rey Mysterio

People kind of thought I was some comic book villain.

— Tom Sandoval

Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic

— Sark

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

— Richard Curtis

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.

— Yasmine Galenorn

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

— Susan Sontag

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

“A pen and a napkin is all an author needs. A finger. Sand..." http://ginamc.blogspot.com/ ”

— Morten Jorgensen

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible…

— Hilary Duff

I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see…

— Jodi Hills

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

— Julia Quinn

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

— Richard de Bury

“Paul, the great apostle, author of much of the New Testament, and church planter extraordinaire, knew God had assigned him a particular…

— Stephen Altrogge

“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones.…

— Mikita Brottman

“I should write a serious book on China. If I did that and put in a lot of subtext about love and…

— Jesse James Freeman

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make…

— Iain Banks

I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age,…

— Tom Ford

“What is it like to a be published author? Image clawing your beating heart from your chest and flopping it onto a…

— Vallory Vance

“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read…

— Michael Gira

Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are…

— Robin McKinley

“Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

— Kate DiCamillo

“To read is to breathe; to write is to live!”

— Johan Thompson

We need knew knights, but without swords.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

— Michel de Montaigne

“like to ask you for one small favor. If you liked my book”

— Anonymous

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

— A. Scott Berg

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.

— Jim Lee

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

— Francois Mitterrand

I wanna be a legend, I wanna be in the world books of records.

— Andy Ruiz Jr

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph.

— Kanye West

“Romantic novels had much to answer for.”

— Jayne Fresina

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

— Terry Brooks

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

— Joyce Carol Oates

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

— Louis L'Amour