Book Quotes

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.

Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.

I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work