Books Quotes · Page 408

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of…

— Leslie Fiedler

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

— Terry Pratchett

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

— Penelope Wilton

“Just think how it would look if a reader walked into a café you'd recommended and found it taken over by vegetarians.”

— Anne Tyler

“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They…

— Commonweal

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or…

— Willa Cather

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States,…

— Bennett Cerf

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed…

— Paul Virilio

I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from…

— Yuna

“Female readers, on the other hand, were unmoved by the book, one of them going so far as to give it the…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

“In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice sometimes had to look at him…

— Carol Anshow

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives…

— Italo Calvino

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the…

— John McCain

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

— Milt Kamen

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

— Connie Willis

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

— Jonathan Franzen

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

I'm a geek of all general types. I like a little bit of everything, I love comic books, I love pro-wrestling, I…

— Ron Funches

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put…

— John Keegan

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what…

— Junot Diaz

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

— Michel de Montaigne

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert

“I will read just about any book at least once! No matter what genre, I just love to read!”

— Traci Wilcox

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

— Groucho Marx

“Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”

— Jack London

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“And the way to do that was just described in the book that Gideon was moving wide open under Brownie’s nose.”

— Linda Hamonou

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

— Leo Tolstoy

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different…

— Susan Orlean

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to…

— Paul Krugman

No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending,…

— Frances Hardinge

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos