Books Quotes
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Candice Patton
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
Patrick Ness
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
Nate Berkus
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I love books.
Gail Porter
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
Malorie Blackman
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast
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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
Joy Fielding
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
Nathalie Emmanuel
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
Chuck Klosterman
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
Gary Saul Morson
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
Patrick Carman
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
V. S. Naipaul