Quotes of: Books Keyword

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

Daniel Ionson

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

D. H. Lawrence

The road of life’s twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Jeffery Deaver

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

Jasper Fforde

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

Jonathan Franzen

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Joshua Foer

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Julian Fellowes

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

Jane Gardam

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

Jennifer Gilmore

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

Jennifer Granholm

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

John Hodgman

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

John Keegan

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

Jon Krakauer

Whoever said "The hand that holds a book cannot hold a gun" never worked for CIA Tech Ops.

John Alejandro King

Baloo: [Mowgli is almost at the man-village entrance] Mowgli, come back, come back! Bagheera: [encouragingly] No, go on, go on!

The Jungle Book

Buzzie: So what we gonna do? Flaps: I don't know. Hey, now don't start *that* again!

The Jungle Book

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

Anne Enright