Books Quotes · Page 499

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

— Jaden Smith

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room…

— Candice Olson

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

— Sophie Kinsella

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

— Orison Swett Marden

“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.”

— Kersten Hamilton

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

— Keri Hulme

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is…

— James Patterson

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you…

— Nick Laird

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by…

— Terry Pratchett

I love you and I cannot hide it Have tried to keep my sanity but the more I try to resist,the more…

— Emmanuel Tamatey

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“What I have revealed is an orgy of depravity and venality, and if there is any attempt to stop the publishing of…

— Jacques Pauw

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while,…

— Michel Faber

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.          —Lois Wyse, author and columnist”

— Valerie Young

“My books usually come from a dream that gives me an idea that turns into an adventure!”

— Jen Golembiewski

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

— Ross Macdonald

You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm…

— Michael Buckley

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

— Roger Ross Williams

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

— Steve Erickson

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a…

— Jim Webb

“...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.”

— Bruce Meyer

Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in…

— Joy Reid

“There was the union of his soul with Gloria's, whose radiant fire and freshness was the living material of which the dead…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something.

— Ed Helms

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took…

— Anne Rice

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day”

— Ashley Poston

“The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and…

— Jamie L. Harding

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

“He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?" I stared at him. He had to be…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like . . . I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a…

— Tim O'Brien

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

— Charles Fletcher Lummis

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

— S. S. Van Dine

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King…

— Maeve Binchy

“an oft-cited 2010 study on self-esteem, its authors found that college students would rather receive praise than have sex. A”

— David Zweig

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading,…

— Susan Rothenberg

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children…

— Richard K. Morgan

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

— Agatha Christie