Quotes of: Books Keyword

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

The Name of This Book Is Secret

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

Janet Evanovich

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

Chris Matthews

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Mary Roach

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

Aaron Swartz

You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you've done is talk about writing a book. An idea for a book is not a book; it is a waste of time. There is no singular thing that makes someone a writer, but ther...

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase th...

Dangerous Laughter

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it s...

Ray Bradbury

A book is a book is a book.

Maurice Sendak

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

Vikram Seth

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really ...

Caroline Leavitt

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's...

Michael Morpurgo

Rather than dirt, I’d rather push a wheelbarrow full of books. Dirty books.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no...

Alison McGhee

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. ....

Haunted

To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Ray Bradbury

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

Stewart O'Nan

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

N. T. Wright

there exist a great parity between things inside books and things outside books. What are inside books, are not all that different from what are outside books

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah