Books Quotes · Page 918

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come…

— Mary Cable

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and…

— Charlaine Harris

Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel…

— Michiko Kakutani

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I…

— Haruki Murakami

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!…

— Jane Austen

“Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking…

— Ford Madox Ford

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed…

— Charles de Lint

“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the…

— Philip Pullman

“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob…

— William Faulkner

“Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels,…

— Anaïs Nin

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe…

— Hugo Hamilton

After the first Olive Farm book was published, in 2001 I got a three-book deal with Orion for a large sum of…

— Carol Drinkwater

“Sometimes people even write to say they use our books only to see where not to go. They don’t want to stay…

— Anonymous

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the…

— Deb Caletti

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the…

— Matthew Pearl

“Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: “We bitch about our difficulties along the…

— Esther Perel

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I…

— Irving Stone

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be…

— Khaled Hosseini

Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got…

— William Empson

There are a lot of people out there who will write books, in which everything turns out nicely and the bad guys…

— George R. R. Martin

“As Westergren says, we are narrowing our taste, reducing the music or books or clothes or people that might widen our horizons.…

— Anonymous

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in…

— Adriana Trigiani

My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between…

— Tom Robinson

“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous…

— M.J. Nicholls

I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have…

— John Irving

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of…

— Rick Yancey

“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of…

— Orson Scott Card

I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of…

— Markus Zusak

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so…

— John Searles

“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot…

— Anais Nin

“ ubiquitous , adj . When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It’s there in the song that shuffles…

— David Levithan

“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men…

— Paul Collins

The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely…

— Lord Acton

“And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend,…

— Alexander Pope

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“A large number of houses deserve to be burnt, most modern furniture, an overwhelming majority of pictures and books - one might…

— H.G. Wells

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are…

— Hayley Mills

“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert…

— Dana Gioia

“CUSTOMER: Do you have any of those books where you can change the names of the main character to the name of…

— Jen Campbell