Books Quotes · Page 589

A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the…

— Bruce Barcott

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel…

— Walter Mosley

“encourages his readers to fulfil their Ministry e.g. Col. 4:17. In his letter to his son Timothy, he gives him three keys…

— D.K. Olukoya

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection…

— Ellen Glasgow

“The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my…

— William H. Gass

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a…

— Ahmet Zappa

“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words…

— Mark Forsyth

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three…

— Umberto Eco

“The medievals loved to say that God wrote two books: nature and Scripture. And since he is the author of both books,…

— Peter Kreeft

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.…

— Elle Macpherson

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part…

— Patrick O'Brian

“There are only four stories: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power, and…

— Timothy Ferriss

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to…

— Robertson Davies

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the…

— Walter Jon Williams

I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and…

— Barry McGee

“(One day, when I own a house, I’ll keep a full library of books. Books are different from other possessions—they’re more like…

— Blake Mycoskie

“Wicked little tongue the witch has, how I would like to bite it out of her mouth" Blood Magic Book 1 of…

— Zoey Sweete

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

— Michael Cadnum

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

— Derek Walcott

“it didn’t really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant that was more important.”

— Markus Zusak

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

— Leni Riefenstahl

“Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends. - Martial (40 AD…

— Martial

There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.

— Ralph Smart

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover…

— Hermann Hesse

“Give me a book and I will learn how to live my life, but give me a boob, and I won’t need…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands”

— Charlotte

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I…

— Wilbur Smith

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a…

— Alissa Quart

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

— Elie Wiesel

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

— Werner Herzog

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

— Laura Miller

“Along the way, he published a novel about the music business with the title Sweetie Baby Cookie Honey.”

— Michael Sokolove

“MADELINE SHEEHAN WILL BE PUBLISHING ALL HER BOOKS IN ALL FORMATS FROM NOW UNTIL HER UNTIMELY DEATH BY HEART ATTACK (AT A…

— Madeline Sheehan

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how…

— J. C. Ryle

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that…

— Harsha Bhogle