Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person. — Jean Rhys
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal… — George R. R. Martin
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use… — Mark Twain
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… — John Green
Books in your head help no one. — Sam Horn
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace… — George Orwell
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. — David Foster Wallace
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar… — Beryl Bainbridge
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every… — Madeleine L'Engle
Having books published is very destructive to writing. — Ernest Hemingway
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,… — Flannery O'Connor
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and… — Madison Smartt Bell
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have… — Morris West
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times… — Edwin Percy Whipple
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells

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