Books Quotes · Page 819

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages…

— Michael Korda

“Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't…

— Holly Black

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

— Hansie Cronje

“Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.”

— Anonymous

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the…

— Kerry Greenwood

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or…

— Deb Caletti

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose…

— Scarlett Thomas

“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on but that death goes on, too, that a person who is dead…

— Elizabeth McCracken

There are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors, But from the life experince itself. There are…

— Amos Rasta

Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I'm not allowed to buy advertising for my book '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' on Facebook because, according to their representative,…

— Mike Gallagher

Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my…

— Andrew Gross

“AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I like dysfunction. Broken people who can't fix each other, but fit together because they're missing the same pieces.”

— Lime Craven

“ To my wonderful readers: Sorry about that last cliff-hanger. Well, no, not really. HAHAHAHA. But seriously, I love you guys. ”

— Rick Riordan

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

— James A. Michener

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in…

— Charles Baxter

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own…

— Cilla Black

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

— Marion Dane Bauer

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a…

— John C. Maxwell

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book…

— Rita Dove

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for…

— Ellen Hopkins

Don't lose incredible opportunities due to fear or rage; there's no reason to close a good book, when we can instead just…

— Jamie Timbre

Are you writing a book?leave this chapter out and make a mystery,or go screw yourself and make it a love story

— Anonymous

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its…

— Joseph Sobran

“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“I went upstairs to my office, lay in the dark among my books - the only comforting thing I have.”

— Philipp Meyer

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

— Wallace Stegner

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.

— Eric Bana

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

— Romain Gary

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

— Cindy Sherman

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

— Jade Hassoune