Books Quotes · Page 482

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single…

— Ernie Colon

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

— Judith Viorst

“You know you're a bookaholic when you take a book off your shelf and have to go hunting to find a spot…

— Tynan

“Cleveland-area fans of French children's literature were disappointed by the Prince's decision to sign with the Miami Heat.”

— Randall Munroe

“Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist.”

— Michael Wolff

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

— Roddy Doyle

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

— Zoe Sugg

I've always said I want to have a book with my name on it in the shops one day, so to have…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

“When someone steals your goat, my son, it is roasted and eaten and you forget it. When someone steals your corn, it…

— Anonymous

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher…

— Libba Bray

What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely…

— H. L. Mencken

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all…

— Sir John Davies

“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a…

— Alok Mishra

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In…

— Rick Riordan

“I think of writing as a partnership with the reader. My goal is to feed their imagination, but only partially. If you…

— S.J. Pierce

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read…

— James Patterson

I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.

— Jonathan Agnew

“The amazing part about being the author of your own life is that you can adjust the way circumstances are viewed, handled,…

— Nate Green

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

— Haruki Murakami

“Books are like a movie that makes you smarter and lasts for hours and doesn't run out of battery.”

— Ranbowfut

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

— Lynda Barry

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“All I can think is: His head is gone and I don’t know how to merge with the Book. ”

— Karen Marie Moning

I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

— Cassandra Clare

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

— Richard Ford

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

— Tom Wolfe

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out…

— Janice Y.K. Lee

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks…

— Tom Wolfe

“Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.”

— Mark W Boyer

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

— George Fox

Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings to soar and escape, if only for…

— DH Lawrence

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library…

— Dan Brown

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

— Francis Ford Coppola

“In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —ANDRÉ MAUROIS”

— Harville Hendrix

“She summoned a demon. "Tell me," she demanded, "a comforting truth." "There will always be another book to read." "Always?" "Always.”

— MicroSFF

“The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence…

— Os Guinness

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

— Michael Ondaatje

When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese…

— Amish Tripathi

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

— John Cage

My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection.

— Kellie Martin