Quotes of: Books Keyword

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

Alice Hoffman

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

Bill Bryson

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

Chelsea Cain

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.

Don Winslow

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Elaine Pagels

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Francoise Sagan

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Gretchen Rubin

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

Gary Shteyngart

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Irvine Welsh

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

John McGahern

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.

Tim Howard

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

Louis L'Amour

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

Marianne Vos

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

Paul Theroux

[from trailer] Robert Frobisher: A half-finished book is, after all, a half finished love affair.

Cloud Atlas

Timmons: [after he has bent over and farted] Why don't you put that in your book?

Dances with Wolves

Katharine Clifton: Am I K in your book? I think I must be.

The English Patient

Leonard Shelby: I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next.

Memento

David Mills: [Banging a book in frustration] Fuckin' Dante... poetry-writing faggot! Piece of shit, motherfucker!

Se7en

Middle Jamal: The guide book was written by a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing Indian beggars!

Slumdog Millionaire