Books Quotes · Page 465

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

— Victoria Glendinning

The most important thing about life is to make sure that your name is written in the book of life because that…

— Magdalyn

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

— Diana Penty

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place…

— Fisher Ames

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

“All world believers of righteousness are required to pledge allegiance to Allah!”

— Compton Gage

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

— Peter Furler

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it…

— Susan Sontag

“Dust dances in the light like tiny ghosts of stories. I open a yellowed page— your handwriting from another lifetime. The shopkeeper…

— Avijeet Das

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap…

— Timothy Dalton

I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first…

— Jonathan Trigell

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage…

— Rebecca West

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip…

— Karen Traviss

“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading,…

— Chris Colfer

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness…

— Khaled Hosseini

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

— Edwin Way Teale

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

— Willa Cather

“I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they’re dying it keeps them from…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Just cause I stay home and read a book dont mean that I'm boring, I just warm up a coffee, flip the…

— Slater Beats

Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.

— Charles Best

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by…

— Anonymous

“To think of the time I spend procuring books... How fitting: a book procured me. Utterly fantastic...”

— Erika Swyler

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

— Rex Stout

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

— Leonard Cohen

Wondering why logging onto Face book has become part of the everyday routine?… Do I really have nothing better to do!

— Serenity Karma

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

— Baron Goodman Arnold Goodman

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

— Nicholas Mosley

The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter, doesn't mean the end of the book.

— Chloe

Once you finish reading a book , you find out how different you are from other people.

— MlY AB

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.

— Marlon James

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

— Colum McCann

“This Book is Dedicated to Black Girls Everywhere. You are Powerful. You are Beautiful. You are Loved.”

— Daniel José Older

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

— Indro Montanelli

“Judges is the best book in the Old Testament for the understanding of renewal and revival, while Acts is the best place…

— Timothy J. Keller

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

— Charles Caleb Colton