Book Quotes

• Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Men
  • Brilliant
  • April

• Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Value

• I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Book
  • Fall

• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • World
  • Children
  • History

• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Book

• Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

  

  John Grogan
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book on the top of every single page? Does anyone get halfway through a book, What the hell am I reading?

  

  Brian Regan
  • Reading
  • Smart
  • Hell

• Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Time
  • Book
  • Science

• Tom Hooper did an amazing job in capturing the feel of Victor Hugo's book. I thought some of the performances were incredible. I thought the Bishop would be a nice part to play, and they all made such a fuss of me being there.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Job
  • Nice
  • Amazing

• J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Description

• A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Up
  • Future
  • Funny

• When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

  

  David McCullough
  • Book
  • Hope
  • Interesting

• Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Book

• I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Book

• I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • People
  • Writing
  • Kids

• If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Long
  • Book
  • Progress

• You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

  

  Dee Brown
  • Up
  • Done
  • Book

• Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Book
  • Kids

• You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

  

  Annette Curtis Klause
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Worry

• As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Violence

• Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Book
  • Age
  • Attention

• There should be a whole book written about that one word: country. What does that mean, country? It's such a huge umbrella. I would hope that what makes it country is that it all starts with a song. The story being told in three and a half minutes that is not being told on another station.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Song

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