Quotes of: Books Keyword

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Danielle Steel

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

David Sedaris

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Denzel Washington

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

Dick Wolf

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Don Winslow

Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.

Edenia Archuleta

I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages.

Ezra Taft Benson

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Eleanor Catton

11And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes

My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.

E. L. Doctorow

The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.

Emma Forrest

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

E.M. Forster

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

Emily Giffin

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

Eric Hill

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

Edward Klein

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Edward M. Lerner

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Bret Easton Ellis

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

Bryan Fuller

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Billy Joel

Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people.

Belsebuub

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Barbara Park