Best One Book Sayings

130 One Book quotes by 114 unique authors

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand… — Juliet Marillier
Beware of a man of one book. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. — Alan Dean Foster
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people.… — Robert Cormier
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind. — Rachel Cohn
I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber… — Sharon Creech
It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the… — Jeff Abbott
Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir… — James Boswell
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every… — Joan Collins
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time. — Claire Danes
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Samuel Johnson
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. — James Patterson
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing… — Karen Russell
Never trust a man who reads only one book. — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no… — Isaac Asimov
Woe be to him that reads but one book. — George Herbert
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. — Malcolm X
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. — Diane Duane
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for… — Alan Bennett
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. — Nikki Giovanni
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing… — Clive Barker

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