Books Quotes · Page 748

“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day -…

— John C. Maxwell

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

— Min Jin Lee

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

— Conor Oberst

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

— Robert Browning

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

“Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes.”

— Fiona Staples

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,…

— Paulo Freire

When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in…

— Laeta Kalogridis

I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my…

— Avi

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me…

— Bob Woodward

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -…

— Kevin Powers

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more…

— Joe Abercrombie

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful…

— Anne Fadiman

“Note that rating a book automatically adds it to your Read shelf if it is not already there. Shelved and rated books…

— Amazon

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our…

— Jan Karon

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

— Rooney Mara

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild…

— Alexandra David-Neel

“The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.”

— Paul Valéry

“I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon,…

— Nicola Yoon

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

— Edward Abbey

“I thought we’d seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of the Invisible Book of Invisibility — cost a fortune,…

— J.K. Rowling

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

— Rahm Emanuel

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what…

— Erin Morgenstern

“God will always bless the readers of his words:josuha:1:8, http://supergigsvault.wix.com ”

— Smart Oyejide

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

— Mark Twain

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at…

— Ulysses S. Grant

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by…

— Robert Jordan

“If people would read more of these humor books, they wouldn’t need all those self-improvement books!”

— Susan C. Young

In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect…

— Karan Mahajan

“When I took these things from the house: some tapes, some books, my winter clothes, I did not know that these would…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?”

— Robin Sloan

“Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.”

— Sarah Johnson

“Books because are the vehicle that takes my mind to places and times my body can't go.”

— Jeffrey Michael

I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role…

— Mac Barnett

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

— Anne Hathaway

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

— Vanessa Hudgens

After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.

— Michael Seibel