Books Quotes · Page 754

“To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.”

— Bernhard Schlink

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

— Howard Jacobson

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

— Dave Barry

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

— Thea Astley

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

— Norman Reedus

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one…

— Amor Towles

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

— David Dunn

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a…

— Deborah Feldman

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if…

— Neil Gaiman

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book…

— Haruki Murakami

“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by…

— Adam Smith

Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that…

— Alejandro Zambra

“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic…

— Alan Moore

Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating…

— Christine Jennings

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

— Jean Craighead George

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

— Nora Roberts

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not…

— John Hodgman

I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think.

— Hilton Als

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.

— Reggie Lee

“One of my hobbies is reading finance and economic books—at the strip club, where I “invest” my money.”

— Jarod Kintz

I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market…

— Jack Pierson

“To get involved with the following loves will bring grief to your life style: musician, author and actor.”

— Daniel Bel-Tempo

“I’d like the last chapter of my life to be like a good read that you enjoyed to the end and were…

— Michael Lipsey

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

— John Ruskin

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

— Annie Dillard

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them…

— Alan Moore

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

— Britney Spears

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

— Jonathan Swift

We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.

— Leonard Mlodinow

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the…

— William Faulkner

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of…

— Michael Connelly

I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited…

— Ella Woodward

A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

— Hank Azaria

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the…

— V. S. Naipaul

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

— Andy Borowitz

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor