Books Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text.…

— George Santayana

“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“There is more to writing a book than just writing a book.”

— John Morris Benson

“Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.”

— Tibor Fischer

“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a human heart…

— Alok Mishra

“I love books because they are easier than people.”

— Courtney Conant

“If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”

— Don Roff

“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

— A. A. Milne

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for…

— Michael Morpurgo

“The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.”

— Umberto Eco

“If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.”

— Stephen Colbert