Books Quotes · Page 565

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

— Helene Hanff

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

— Jasper Fforde

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

— Zadie Smith

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,…

— Marilyn Hacker

“If I was an author I'd be worried, as I'm a story teller I'll just get drunk and make it up as…

— Glenn Scrimshaw

I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time…

— Lucia Puenzo

I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go…

— Lewis Grizzard

“The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has…

— Henry David Thoreau

“of the growth of self-restraint. A starting point for Elias’s analysis was medieval treatises on polite manners such as the book On…

— Nicholas Wade

For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have.…

— Julie Klassen

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that,…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

I'm enrolled right now in the School of Life. I deferred from Sarah Lawrence, so I think I'm going to try to…

— Emma Roberts

So far as the government is concerned, there is ­only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and…

— Narendra Modi

“Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don’t stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you’ve read the rule…

— Andrew Barrett

In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something…

— Tom Anderson

I was working on a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a small Indiana town. Then I remembered Jim…

— Julia Scheeres

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

— Margaret Atwood

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre…

— Harold Bloom

“was boring to think of books as something you should read just because others had, and”

— Katarina Bivald

“Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it.”

— Joseph Heller

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

— Stephen Ambrose

An angel opened the book of life and wrote down my babys birth. And whispered as she closed it Too beautiful for…

— Babloo

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

— Louisa May Alcott

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home…

— Ann Voskamp

“There are essentially two things that will make us wiser: the books we read and the people we meet.”

— Charles Jones

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You…

— Danny Boyle

“As for workout clothes, Bowerman told readers that proper clothing “may help the spirit,” but added that people shouldn’t get hung up…

— Phil Knight

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

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

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in…

— Laurence Housman

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

— Leni Zumas

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"

— Wayne Dyer

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

— August Wilson

“If too descriptive, you lose the readers’ ability to interpret. And that’s a vital organ you don’t want to fuck with.”

— Jason Lebowitz

“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.”

— Terry Eagleton

“Only bad books have good endings.if a book is any good, its ending is always bad_because byou don't want the book to…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

— Ogden Nash

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

— Robert Aris Willmott

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

— Charles Spurgeon