Books Quotes · Page 441

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

— Ryan Gosling

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first…

— Howard Nemerov

“Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.”

— G.K. Chesterton

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

This is shit I say as I click next chapter just to make sure its still shit. I read the whole thing.…

— Ramandeep Singh

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.

— Gerard Way

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,…

— David Hume

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you…

— Eoin Colfer

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take…

— Chris Claremont

If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have…

— Michel Foucault

But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately…

— Michael Ballack

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I…

— Dan DeCarlo

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are…

— Isabel Allende

Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.

— Jenova Chen

“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.”

— N.D. Wilson

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

— Rob Thomas

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done…

— Shane McCrae

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

— Jessica Pare

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

— Bruno Schulz

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained…

— Cynthia Voigt

I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in…

— Tom King

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In the book of life, the page yesterday is over. Future is blank and today is being written.

— Anonymous

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire…

— John Fowles

“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”

— Ali Smith

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new…

— Val McDermid

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

— China Mieville

If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.

— Colleen Hoover

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!

— David Cross

My wife made me a book of photographs she took of our road trip across the United States. Makes for a good…

— Paul Wesley

I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

— Shlomo Sand

One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.

— Jennifer Egan

I wish I had a sign that read, This is a Drama Free Zone, so please take it somewhere else.

— JREYES

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I…

— Annie Dillard

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

— Pat Barker

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty…

— Alice Walker

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick