Books Quotes · Page 700

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

— Frederick Forsyth

I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

— Karen Duffy

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

— Janet Evanovich

“Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.”

— Robin Sloan

“A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him…

— Syrie James

Books has its own world and I am one of those people captivated to enter its magical door

— Jermilyn Inot

“There's no excuse for a dull book, a dull museum, or a dull speech. Especially when dealing with history—the most fascinating subject…

— Richard Norton Smith

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

— George Hamilton

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site,…

— David Bowie

“Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is…

— Jim Cymbala

“I am told that César Aira writes two books a year, at least, some of which are published by a little Argentinean…

— Roberto Bolaño

I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I…

— Per Petterson

If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those…

— Elie Wiesel

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground,…

— Amy Sillman

“What the author of Genesis wants to tell us, I think, is that man, when united with God, is not divided. In…

— Francisco X. Stork

For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and…

— Sasa Stanisic

“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”

— Kellie Elmore

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

— Jeanette Winterson

“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take…

— Ernest Hemingway

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

— Mary McCarthy

I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile…

— Colson Whitehead

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

— MaryJanice Davidson

I always give a little talk before I sign books and ask for questions. I love the Q&A sessions. We have a…

— Homer Hickam

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write…

— Nikki Giovanni

“Our understanding of the universe is like a story without a beginning or end where the reader is creating the plot as…

— Ivan Figueroa-Otero

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

— David Markson

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“With a lightning quick glance at me first, he reads one bumper sticker: “Member: BBB. Boys in Books are Better?”

— Anne Eliot

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and…

— Ali Smith

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public…

— Raymond Chandler

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

— Katherine Paterson

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

— Jennifer Egan

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

— Anonymous

I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

— James A. Michener

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there…

— Charlaine Harris