Books Quotes · Page 472

“I wouldn't miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which called forth a djinn who was to serve…

— Maya Angelou

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,…

— Joseph Brodsky

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

— Edward Abbey

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

— Norman Cousins

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.

— Stephen Moyer

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

— Kabir

“In 1956 a series of books, articles, pamphlets, and other documents relating to Bérenger Saunière and the enigma of Rennes-le-Chateau began to…

— Michael Baigent

“He cannot lock us all up.” “He has prisons enough.” “For bodies, yes. But what are bodies? He can take our goods,…

— Hilary Mantel

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you…

— Paula White

“I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I'm…

— Donald Miller

“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“This was the sort of situation that she read about in the novels she favored, by authors such as Miss Jane Austen,…

— Tracy Chevalier

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier…

— Kate DiCamillo

“He said, "Son, when did you stop reading your Bible? All of our stories are in the Bible. God has already written…

— Nik Ripkin

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Good night you Kings of New England. You Princes of Maine." Who knows what book this quote comes from?”

— John Irving

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

— Walter Pater

I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just…

— Alice Cooper

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

— Italo Calvino

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

— Thomas Harris

“When panic sets in, my advice is to fast and read the Book of Mormon for at least a half hour.”

— John Wright

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

“you’ve been all black and white, like Kansas. It’s time to get back to Oz. Enjoy the colors.”

— Kaje Harper

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the…

— Daphne du Maurier

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

— Marianne Williamson

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a…

— Nick Clegg

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

— Joanne Harris

“And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.”

— John Irving

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

— Henry Rollins

“The teacher, not a set of books, is the determining factor in quality results.”

— James Bastien

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

— Oscar Wilde

I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing…

— Louis Leterrier

Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

— Michael Dirda

English Teacher were never going to finish this book if you constantly pick the illiterate people to read.

— Anonymous