From Book Quotes

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special relationship with the fans.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

I mainly buy books in my free time.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

I put my soul into every book I write.

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.