Books Quotes · Page 815

“Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other’s hands. —Amaderan Poetry, various authors…

— Marie Lu

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.

— Kathryn Lasky

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those…

— Dorothy Allison

“It was like my life hung on the chapters of a novel - and each scene ended in a cliffhanger.”

— Phaedra Weldon

“If I were taking notes, they would read: I see something. A shape? I have no idea. It’s not exactly the stuff…

— Ann Patchett

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real…

— Jim Woodring

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works…

— Gao Xingjian

“Virginia Woolf wrote famously, “About December 1910 human nature changed.” Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all…

— Deirdre McCloskey

“Ugly or not, I could still kiss you if I wanted to, and you’d let me.” I choked on the rich cocoa…

— L.J. Shen

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very…

— Amanda Peet

I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English…

— Theodora Goss

It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and…

— Karan Mahajan

“You don't need a lot of money to live a full life--all you need is a fertile mind, some books and a…

— Robyn Carr

“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

— Antonio Tabucchi

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

— Jack Vance

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

— Edward Abbey

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened…

— Helen Hayes

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

— Terry Riley

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of…

— Mister Lemur

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

— Vikram Seth

I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

— Colson Whitehead

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it…

— David Sedaris

“The purpose of the report is to place the reader figuratively in the setting, and to help the reader experience the situation…

— Gjoko Muratovski

“The truth of the matter was no boy I knew lived up to the fantasy I’d created from the many books I’d…

— Natasha Boyd

“Now your not known author, once you die you gonna be famous. But the question is with what? WITH BAD OR GOOD?”

— Deyth Banger

“Why 100? If I were wrong, one would have been enough. [In response to the book "Hundred Authors Against Einstein"]”

— Albert Einstein

“I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.”

— Gillian Flynn

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the…

— Mark Haddon

“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...”

— Cornelia Funke

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

— Walter Gilbert

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

And so we can conclude that the reader's imagination is better than that of the director's.

— Innah Delos Angeles

If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a…

— Charles Manson

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

— Tom Peters

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of…

— Kwame Nkrumah