Books Quote by Jane Smiley

Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake…

— Jane Smiley

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

— Meg Rosoff

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover Themselves", "People…

— Orson Scott Card

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

— Max Frisch

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much…

— Piero Scaruffi

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

— Zara Phillips

“It isn't at all suprising that horses figure in so many diffrent ways in myth and story-there is such power in them beyond the…

— Russell Hoban

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

— Joachim Frank

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little…

— Zia Haider Rahman

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

— Muriel Wace