Books Quotes · Page 437

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

— David Crabb

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

— Cornelia Funke

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

— J. G. Ballard

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked…

— Mark Twain

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books…

— Ray Bradbury

“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.”

— Ken Follett

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

— Neal Adams

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

— Blake Bailey

“As one descendant of a black cowboy explained, "We didn't write the books. We didn't produce the movies. So we were politely…

— Tricia Martineau Wagner

But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that…

— George Pattison

“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I…

— Carolyn Cassady

I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next…

— Bill Simmons

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -…

— Henry David Thoreau

Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop…

— Charles Harper Webb

If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make…

— J. Michael Straczynski

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

— Alphonse Karr

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to…

— Joe Torre

The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.

— Erin O'Toole

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else…

— J. E. Buckrose

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

— Rodman Philbrick

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him…

— Conor Oberst

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played…

— Joey Barton

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more…

— Zanesh Catkin

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such…

— Anna Sui

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The…

— Steven Johnson

Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.

— Peter Handke

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after…

— Winifred Holtby

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply…

— Robert Crais

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

— Nora Roberts

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

— James Boswell

“The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.”

— Lawrence Block

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as…

— Franny Armstrong

“Books can send you to another dimension, a dimension exclusive only for the readers.”

— My Self

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

— Mike Tyson

“the difference between who you are today and who you will be in five years will be the people you spend time…

— John C. Maxwell

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn