Books Quotes · Page 386

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new…

— Kameron Hurley

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes…

— Amy Lowell

“As an author you can move mountains with words, but you need a bulldozer of creativity to find the gold nuggets.”

— Natasza Waters

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that…

— Nathan Lowell

I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps…

— Ozzy Osbourne

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and…

— Edmund White

“he's got more heavies out looking for you than are on the books of Weight Watchers”

— David Clark

“I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!”

— Daniel Clowes

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for…

— Richard Matheson

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant…

— E. M. Forster

“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of…

— Billy Collins

“As a result of the success achieved by so many clients who used my approach, I was told to write a book,…

— Emma James

Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple…

— Michael Gerber

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand…

— Chris Bohjalian

A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

People only like me because I'm pretty. guys think of girls like a book. if the cover doesn't catch their eyes, they…

— Shaylee

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as…

— John Lanchester

“You can read her mind only if she lets you. She will let you only if she loves you.”

— Tapan Ghosh

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

— Eva Mendes

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

— Markus Zusak

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose…

— Rumer Godden

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not…

— Northrop Frye

I like learning things from books. Some of my favourites are George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' novels; he researched them meticulously.

— Richard Bacon

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

— Helen Fielding

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

— Brian Posehn

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

— Jane Hamilton

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

— Raymond Chandler

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Only when, years later, I touched for the first time my lover's body did I realize that literature could sometimes fall short…

— Alberto Manguel

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

— Chang-Rae Lee

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through…

— Terry Pratchett

“In another surprise, when letters are omitted from words in a text, requiring the reader to supply them, reading is slowed, and…

— Peter C. Brown

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

— Alan Bennett

“Maraming myths kasi. Maraming nag-teach ng history, they do not really read. They do not know of historical methodology. They do not…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

— Mia Wasikowska

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

— George Pelecanos

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

— Elaine Pagels

“OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.”

— Salman Rushdie