Book Quotes

• [Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Writing
  • Agents
  • Pens

• People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

  

  Martin Amis
  • People
  • Writing
  • Children

• Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

  

  Jon Ronson
  • Book

• A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Book
  • Sea
  • Frozen

• I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

  

  Jane Green
  • Life
  • Book
  • America

• In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ben Mezrich
  • Together
  • Path
  • Author

• Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Sun

• When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

  

  Philip Roth
  • World
  • Book

• I spent my life folded between the pages of books.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Life
  • Character
  • Loss

• Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sunday

• I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Time
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Money

• After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Book
  • Opinion
  • Saws

• What can be hidden in a book?

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Book

• That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Culture

• For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Book
  • Expectations

• There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • House
  • Dog

• I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Book
  • Nerd

• My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Book
  • Organization

• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

  

  Douglas Preston
  • Up
  • Power
  • War

• Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;They lift their heavy lids, and look;And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,They read with joy, then shut the book.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Sweet

• For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • Book

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