Books Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are…

— C.S. Lewis

“He was just a reader and readers can't do anything to make a story stop - except close the book.”

— Holly Black

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one.…

— Mavis Gallant

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

“The story can be great but the characters make the book”

— R.P. Heinz

“I want to write a book again,” I said to Sam on a blazingly hot afternoon on the veranda of the Red Tin Roof.”

— Jacques Pauw

“Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book.”

— Mary Sisney

“It gets you thinking about all the parts in a story we never see" --he cleared his throat-- "the parts around the edges. You…

— Sarah Blake

“I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of such story as…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book that became…

— John Green

“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I don’t…

— Lisa Schroeder