Books Quotes · Page 772

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and…

— Keith Rabois

Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

— David Harewood

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking…

— Junot Diaz

“You can “pants” your way through your novel, but you can’t “pants” your way to success.”

— Bob Mayer

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

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

— Anonymous

“Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I…

— Amy Poehler

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and…

— Julia Quinn

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what…

— David Lynch

“The sacred books acknowledge with regard to Christ, that as He is the Son of man, so is the same Being not…

— The Church Fathers

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real…

— Rachel Kushner

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I…

— Meg Wolitzer

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name…

— Colm Toibin

“Martín de Córdoba, a distinguished Augustinian friar, disagreed strongly. In a book he wrote to guide Isabella in the exercise of authority,…

— Giles Tremlett

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 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

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

— Katherine Paterson

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ali Smith

“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

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

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

— David Markson

“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

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

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

— Colson Whitehead

“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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and…

— Julian Assange

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced…

— Junot Diaz

“How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around…

— Khaled Hosseini

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why…

— Malala Yousafzai