Books Quotes · Page 586

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

— Joe Gilgun

“To Ashley Cotoy Ruiz, who called me out on an error and then graciously read the whole book for authenticity in the…

— Kyla Stone

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

— LeVar Burton

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

— Garth Ennis

“But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was.”

— Nancy Horan

When my friends asked me to blog, I thought why not write a book? People may be interested in knowing what it…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

— Clive Cussler

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves…

— Umberto Eco

“Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence…

— Madame Guyon

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or…

— William Klein

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people…

— Simon Schama

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of…

— Alberto Manguel

“Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Books are ALWAYS better than movies! They are ready when you are. You are a participant and not a mere observer. You…

— John Leonarz

Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games…

— Tim Harford

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved…

— Thorne Smith

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

— Lee Child

My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was…

— John Grisham

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

— Max Lucado

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

— Richard de Bury

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable…

— Sylvia Plath

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up…

— Hideo Kojima

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible…

— Hilary Duff

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

— Julia Quinn

I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see…

— Jodi Hills

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

— Susan Sontag

Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.

— Yasmine Galenorn

“A pen and a napkin is all an author needs. A finger. Sand..." http://ginamc.blogspot.com/ ”

— Morten Jorgensen

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.

— H. A. Rey

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

— Thomas Piketty

“Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story”

— Chuck Wendig

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the…

— Katherine Paterson

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

— James Ellroy

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

— Emily Dickinson

I always balk when a so-called 'friend' gives me a book as a gift and it's 650 pages long.

— Tim Key

“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.”

— Sara Sheridan

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

— Sam Ewing