Books Quotes · Page 546

Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, Patricia Briggs, Shelby Reed - these are my pre-order, must-have authors.

— Sylvia Day

Look what a silly little book can do espeacially in the hands of a silly little girl!

— Lord Voldemort

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

— Justin Cronin

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

— Alan King

“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing.”

— Guy Kawasaki

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul...

— Israel Zangwill

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or…

— Jasper Fforde

“The BBC had made a television series a few years later but for her nothing could match the magic of the books,…

— Jeremy Duns

“In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we…

— Gene Kim

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when…

— Arundhati Roy

“St. Thomas, following his master Albert, proves the necessity of a right intention on the part of the minister from the proposition…

— Joseph Pohle

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if…

— Ira Sachs

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster…

— Mark Twain

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer…

— Anne Frank

“He is so delighted when we approach His throne with prayer. He loves to be remembered as the One who can heal…

— Sunshine Rodgers

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable…

— Amy Poehler

“He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry,…

— Cora Carmack

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know…

— Alain de Botton

I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to…

— John Grisham

“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at…

— C.J. Heck

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.

— Gautham Menon

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

— Mark Haddon

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and…

— Joanna Trollope

Life is a story to be written, not a problem to be solved & when you let God be your author... you're…

— Nishan Panwar

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

— Anne Tyler

Love has to be an open book. Without honesty, trust, and forgiveness, there is no longer a relation in the relationship.

— Olivia McGarry

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great…

— George R. R. Martin

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

— Emile M. Cioran

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

— Stacy Schiff

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

— Jennifer Stone

I wish I could walk through a picture window and the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!”

— Avijeet Das

I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature.

— Tanikella Bharani

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

— Jim Woodring

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

— Alfred North Whitehead