Books Quotes · Page 449

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

— Emma Donoghue

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

— Max Lucado

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

— Anonymous

“when she’d asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he’d replied Principles of Accounting,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

— Julian Fellowes

“Always keep in mind that writer/ author is the another name of storm. So it can run in any medium with his…

— pranita deshpande

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf”

— Christopher Paolini

Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even…

— Elena Ferrante

“Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies,…

— Jodi Picoult

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're…

— Cassandra Clare

“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing…

— Anthony Horowitz

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still...…

— Mickey Spillane

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity…

— Tristan Tzara

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest…

— John Burroughs

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction…

— Peter Sotos

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

— Caroline Dhavernas

“This trash rots the female mind! Only a man could possibly write a book where a woman falls in love with her…

— Shannon Hill

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

— Alice James

' Reading books is the most glorious, pastime that human mankind has been blessed with!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the…

— Jeanette Winterson

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the…

— Mary Ritter Beard

“love this advice from author Joe Vitale: “A good goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.”

— Vishen Lakhiani

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my…

— William Lee Miller

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.”

— Rose Macaulay

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple…

— Henri Matisse

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

— Muhammad Ali

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

— Julian Barratt

I formulate my style based on a range of influences from books to films and my moods.

— Kate Nash

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3…

— William Klein

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never…

— Hilary Swank

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred…

— Alan Davies

“Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.”

— Chris Baty

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

— Chuck Berry

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

— Chris Van Allsburg