Books Quotes · Page 720

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we…

— Saul Bellow

“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.”

— Kate Morton

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

— Danica Patrick

“I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about…

— J. K. Rowling

We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things.

— David Cage

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to…

— Peter Morgan

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

— Shiloh Fernandez

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they…

— Philip Hensher

“I learned a lot, when I was a child, from novels and stories, even fairytales have some point to them--the good ones.…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic…

— Sandra Brown

I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -…

— Adam Ross

“Martin, perceiving some shelves filled with English books, said to the senator, “I fancy that a republican must be highly delighted with…

— Voltaire

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end…

— John le Carre

Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each…

— Benjamin Franklin

Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I…

— John Hodgman

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

— Gemma Files

I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the…

— Kenneth Cole

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the…

— Shirley Hazzard

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

— William Shakespeare

“At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable…

— Seanan McGuire

“There are no electromagnetic field (EMF) book millionaires yet, but that may change with the roll out of the fifth generation (5G)…

— Steven Magee

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

— Sheila Heti

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more…

— Amos Oz

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?”

— Damien Echols

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

“I'm sorry I don't have brilliant reasons for beginning a novel. As you go along, you make up reasons to do what…

— Natalie Goldberg

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot…

— Virginia Woolf

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

— Henry Clay Trumbull

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

— Bruce Jackson

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

— Howard Gardner

One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.

— Hillary Clinton

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

— George Crabbe

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

— Bret Easton Ellis

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

— Storm Jameson