Best Book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Kind Book Voice Comedy Adults Intelligent Like Me Editors Happy Endings Quirky

Author:Elinor Lipman

“I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.”

Years Book Talking Fangirl

Author:Jen Lancaster

“I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.”

Writing Book Ideas Simple Complicated No Idea Solitary

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.”

Book Ends Hurt Cat Work Out Uncomfortable Reviews Edited Things Work Out

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!”

Book Games Video Comic Comic Book Nerd Zombie

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.”

Book Wanted Changed Changed My Life Perks

Author:Logan Lerman

“I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.”

People Book Culture Pops Jane Pop Culture Like Her Austen Bronte

Author:Laura Marling

“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.”

Writing I Can Book Stories Fighting Situation Cases Acceptance Reader Hero Adversity Mail Surviving Can't Change Affirming Snail Personal Stories True Hero Fighting Through

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.”

Thinking Mind Two Book Form Reader Patterns Opposition Interaction

Author:Margaret Mahy

“When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.”

Knows Writing Book Courses Wide Expected Range Librarian Correcting

Author:Margaret Mahy

“The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.”

Writing Wells Book Different Stories Simple Novel Exciting Complexes Concentration Picture Books

Author:Margaret Mahy

“To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.”

Thinking Book Artist Albums Statements Theme Variation

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.”

Book Ideas Stories Kids Father Versions Short Story Fables Format

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.”

Feels I Can Book Home Happens Jobs Night Next Responsible Coming Home Next Day Manuals

Author:Jodie Foster

“I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.”

Book Girl Reading One Thing Kalamazoo

Author:Mary MacLane

“I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.”

World Want Writing Years Book Different Written Subtle Admiring

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.”

Ifs Wells Book Names Vulgar

Author:Mary MacLane

“I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.”

I Can Book Wife My Wife

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.”

Book Literature

Author:Norman MacCaig

“There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.”

Ifs Feels Years Book Happens Happened Lucky Twenties

Author:Norman MacCaig

“That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!”

Firsts Book Acceptance Paper Exciting Necks Bags Tied Rope Tied Up Paper Bags

Author:Robert McCloskey

“The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.”

Knows Want Book Sometimes Philosophy Film Fun Attention Stores Video Shirts Shops Sections Dense Women Want

Author:Tobey Maguire

“I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.”

Stills Book Artist Ink Here And There

Author:Todd McFarlane

“I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.”

People Thinking Writing Book Whole Artist Shadow Originals Casts Founders Paintbrush

Author:Todd McFarlane

“To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.”

People Book Artist Issues Standing Sidelines Spawn

Author:Todd McFarlane

“Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'”

Thinking Writing Book Havens Fallen Traps Day To Day Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.”

Years Said Book Law Found Prayer Fronts Judging Standing Guilty Pockets Medal Standing There St Jude

Author:Aaron Neville

“I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?”

People Want Littles Book Reading Source Authority Constitution Russia

Author:Alexei Navalny

“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”

Thinking Want Giving Feels Writing Book Millions Reader Thousand Pressure Tempted Good Book Replicate

Author:Jo Nesbo

“When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.”

Knows Children Book Ideas Names Chance Cases Great Idea Children's Books Good Chance

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I don't like to make my life like a book.”

Book

Author:Marc Newson

“I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.”

Writing Book Scared Publish

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.”

Writing Firsts Has Beens Book Writing Poetry

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.”

Book Religious Bans Bangladesh

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13.”

Book Baseball My Favorite Favorite Book Baseball Love

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.”

Feels Book Reading Sun My Favorite Manly Favorite Book Sun Also Rises

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.”

Book Entertainment

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.”

Want Book Dies Scripts Lists Before I Die

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.”

Way Want Feels Writing Book Romance Intimate

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.”

Ifs Men Giving Book Would Be Months Birth Periods Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.”

Ifs Feels Trying Book Ends Kids Enjoy Quality Healthy Dinner Guilty Baths Quality Time

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.”

Way I Can Book Real Imagine Particular Real Books

Author:Susan Orlean

“A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.”

Knows Want Writing Firsts Book Childhood Your Children

Author:Tea Obreht

“I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.”

Book Brain Nonfiction

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.”

World I Can Two Book Actors Acting Reader Two Days I Can Read

Author:Evan Peters

“I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.”

Book My Friends Now And Then

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.”

Should Mean Book Winning Grateful Fortunate

Author:Louise Penny

“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”

Needs Book Novel Bears Discipline Mass Journalist Lazy Sofas Gummies Gummy Bear

Author:Louise Penny

“I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.”

Years Book Character Wanted Turns Rights Tvs Series Request Turned Down Tv Series

Author:Louise Penny

“Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.”

People Book Belief Realizing Attitude Painting Abstract Interpretation Surprising Thrilling Abstract Painting

Author:Marisha Pessl

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