Book Quotes

• I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Boy
  • Bird
  • Grandmother

• To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

  

  Anne Conway
  • Useful
  • Winners
  • Quarter

• A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good.

  

  Can Themba
  • Church
  • Waiting
  • Share

• One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.

  

  Bryan Burrough
  • Help
  • Single
  • Friend

• There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.

  

  Colin Egglesfield
  • Good
  • Book

• It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments.

  

  James Corden
  • Up
  • Father
  • House

• Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Book

• I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Work
  • Game
  • Reading

• Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

  

  Denise Mina
  • Up
  • Different
  • Book

• I'm not that deep, I'm not that mysterious. Don't try to figure me out. I'm a very open book. What you see is what you get.

  

  Anastacia
  • Book
  • Deep
  • Mysterious

• I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Reading
  • Century
  • Painter

• I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Important
  • Book

• While we're having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's part of our makeup as a creature on this planet.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Makeup

• When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Food

• You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Writing

• One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Men
  • Consistent
  • Martyrdom

• I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

  

  Christopher Koch
  • Experience
  • Book

• Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Author

• When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

  

  Martha Grimes
  • Book

• 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

• To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Writing
  • Cutting
  • Natural

• In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Mistake

• I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Up
  • Book

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