Books Quotes · Page 623

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make…

— Bill Cosby

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— magicpicture

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

— Francois Truffaut

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end…

— Thornton Wilder

Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at…

— Andrew Aydin

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?

— Guy Kawasaki

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

— Michael Cunningham

“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort…

— Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“Yorick's Used and Rare Books had a small storefront on Channing but a deep interior shaded by tall bookcases crammed with history,…

— Allegra Goodman

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that…

— Nabokov Vladimir

All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a…

— Caroline Leavitt

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it…

— Billy Collins

Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with,…

— Mordecai Richler

“What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.”

— Umberto Eco

Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul…

— Walt Whitman

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

— Doris Lessing

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

— Ken Follett

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

— Jay McInerney

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby,…

— Sabaa Tahir

My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

— Robyn Davidson

Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two…

— Katherine Dunn

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

— Denis Donoghue

“(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?).”

— Neil Gaiman

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at…

— Cassandra Clare

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I…

— Karl Marlantes

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

— Esperanza Spalding

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

— John Steinbeck

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special…

— Tillie Olsen

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

— Birdy

“An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with…

— Carl Henegan

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

— Tavi Gevinson

“Rigveda: Book No 1. Hyme No. 164 verse 46: “Truth, one and the same be, Wise describe it differently”

— Munindra Misra

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to…

— Alan Gratz