Books Quotes · Page 544

As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets…

— Ronald Kessler

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how…

— Tink

I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world…

— Isaiah Washington

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you…

— James J. Kilpatrick

A book needs to be read first, not judged. A song needs to be heard first, not mocked. A person needs to…

— Mee

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

— Libba Bray

“I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.”

— Patti Roberts

“I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.”

— Markus Zusak

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is…

— Diane Setterfield

“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively…

— Lev Grossman

Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs his insights with an impressive body of…

— Richard M. Kovacevich

What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be…

— Louise Erdrich

[The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so…

— Steven Knight

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather…

— Ellen Hopkins

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in…

— Kate Beckinsale

There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding…

— Stanley Krippner

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

— D. H. Lawrence

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

— Bill Vaughan

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

— Gulzar

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

— Jeff Lindsay

Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.

— Rumaan Alam

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that…

— Chip Kidd

“That attraction force which always happens between the reader and the book, i adore it when it takes place <3”

— Perry

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

— Audrey Niffenegger

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

— Hank Green

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

— George Sarton

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I…

— John Banville

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I…

— Donald Miller

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

— Diane Johnson

“The last time I saw love was in my imagination while reading a book on Thomas Jefferson. Isn’t the Constitution of the…

— Jarod Kintz

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

— Vonda N. McIntyre

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to…

— Philippe Petit

“tastes and tales from Russia = I could not find the book in library or book store.”

— alla Danishavsky

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

— Adam Johnson

“A good book will keep you fascinated for days. A good bookshop for your whole life.”

— Waterstones

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed…

— Rupert Grint

“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in…

— Julian Barnes