Books Quotes · Page 712

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the…

— Kerry Greenwood

“AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I like dysfunction. Broken people who can't fix each other, but fit together because they're missing the same pieces.”

— Lime Craven

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own…

— Cilla Black

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

— James A. Michener

“ To my wonderful readers: Sorry about that last cliff-hanger. Well, no, not really. HAHAHAHA. But seriously, I love you guys. ”

— Rick Riordan

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in…

— Charles Baxter

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

“Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't…

— Holly Black

I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in…

— Werner Herzog

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50…

— Blake Mycoskie

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street,…

— Samuel R. Delany

Books are low-tech, portable packages of the widest range of human experience, presented in a format which gives time to grasp complex…

— Michael Rosen

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more…

— Anonymous

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that…

— James Laughlin

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable…

— Ray Bradbury

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages…

— Michael Korda

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book…

— Rita Dove

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a…

— John C. Maxwell

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

— Marion Dane Bauer

“I went upstairs to my office, lay in the dark among my books - the only comforting thing I have.”

— Philipp Meyer

“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”

— Sinclair Lewis

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for…

— Ellen Hopkins

Don't lose incredible opportunities due to fear or rage; there's no reason to close a good book, when we can instead just…

— Jamie Timbre

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its…

— Joseph Sobran

Are you writing a book?leave this chapter out and make a mystery,or go screw yourself and make it a love story

— Anonymous

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

— Jade Hassoune

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

— Meg Cabot

“At any rate, where books are concerned, it is notoriously difficult to fix labels of merit in such a way that they…

— Virginia Woolf

Deok Sun, like me, is learning about the world every day, but not through books.

— Lee Hye-ri

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

— Wallace Stegner

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

— Romain Gary

If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.

— Eric Bana

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

— Cindy Sherman

Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

— David Farland