Own Books Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books. — Unknown Author
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the… — Anne McCaffrey
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and… — Carl Hiaasen
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you… — Patricia Hampl
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own… — Anselm Kiefer
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and… — Ernest Hemingway
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his… — Erik Larson
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about… — China Mieville
The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of… — Raymond B. Fosdick
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway:… — Iain Sinclair
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. — Dave Eggers
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in… — Joyce Carol Oates
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just… — Terry Pratchett
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books. — Ann Rule
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym… — Vladimir Nabokov
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place — Cornelia Funke
Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up… — Sarah Vowell
I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. — David Levithan

Who Wrote These Own Books Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 27 Own Books Quotes as follows: