Books Quotes · Page 539

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word…

— Adam Kirsch

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books…

— Amy Tan

“I live my life like it will be a book, I want to inspire people, not put them to sleep.”

— Sandra Swartz

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

— Marco Roth

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

— Anonymous

“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.”

— Heath White

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how…

— Beverly Cleary

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

— Josh Lanyon

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called…

— Edith Lovejoy Pierce

As far as comic books are concerned, I was always a Marvel guy for the most part, although I did follow DC…

— Zachary Levi

A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That…

— James Salter

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is…

— Paule Marshall

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that…

— Terry Pratchett

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance…

— Bernard Malamud

“Even if you aren’t writing books, you are the author of your own life. Your life is filled with these small and…

— Rebecca K. Sampson

“One day after the exams, the teachers sat at their desks correcting papers while the pupils read comics, played chess or cards…

— Alasdair Gray

“you enjoyed this book, then I’d like to ask you for a favour, would you be kind enough to leave”

— Dwayne Brown

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

“Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”

— Cornelia Funke

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly…

— Sarah Hall

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the…

— MS Dhoni

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's…

— Sean Bean

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

— Nelson Mandela

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and…

— Polly Toynbee

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

— Mayte Garcia

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

— Catherynne M. Valente

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.”

— Robert Mailer Anderson

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey…

— Joyce Meyer

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of…

— H. L. Mencken

To read a piece of material from a period drama told from the woman's perspective is just so unique.

— Jodie Comer

“I’m not trying to evoke emotions in the reader. My job is to bring about an understanding through pictures.”

— Michael Siegel

“But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

— Milan Kundera

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can…

— Mac Barnett

I wanted my book to be a guide for everyone who has been told 'no' in their life.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you…

— Toni Sorenson