Books Quotes · Page 523

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

— Esther Freud

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

— Jan Tschichold

“ Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. ”

— Patrick Ness

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

— Marjane Satrapi

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

— John Denham

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

— Slick Rick

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

— Adriana Trigiani

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does…

— George Zebrowski

To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their…

— Virginia Woolf

Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much…

— Nick Petrie

“Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the…

— Italo Calvino

It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,…

— Clement Mok

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said,…

— John M. Ford

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books.…

— Stephen Marche

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo…

— Rhea Perlman

It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you…

— Corey Stoll

“The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need…

— Christopher Bram

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

— Samoa Joe

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

— Anonymous

“Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it.”

— Cath Crowley

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

— J. K. Rowling

“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under…

— Evelyn Waugh

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

— Osip Mandelstam

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Fisher Ames

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

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

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

— Edwin Way Teale

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

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

— Willa Cather

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of…

— Nicole Kidman

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

— Paulo Coelho

I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.

— Margaret MacMillan

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just…

— Leni Zumas