Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. — Arnold Lobel
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent… — Timothy Zahn
When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get… — Matthew Woodring Stover
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me. — Oliver Jeffers
Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some… — Anne Fine
My books are about killing God. — Philip Pullman
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved… — Roddy Doyle
How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap… — Michelle Magorian
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men.… — Wynton Marsalis
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and… — Paul Thomas Anderson
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking. — Malala Yousafzai
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism,… — Mahatma Gandhi
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. — Len Deighton
I love comic books and always did as a kid. — Rick Moody
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out. — Rick Moody
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise, — Jacqueline Woodson
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. — Mary Augusta Ward
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that… — Don DeLillo
And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us — Regina Spektor
How can you hide from what never goes away? — Heraclitus

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