Books Quotes - Page 12

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.
Alisha "Priti" Kirpalani
Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway.
Rebecca McNutt
A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
George Saunders
«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.»
Bruce Sterling
Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.
Victor LaValle
I thought it was a novel.”“It is.”“What’s it about??”“You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.”“This one’s got a recipe for apple crumble,” I said.“Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.
Marcel Theroux
What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.
Lisa Morton
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
Isaac Asimov
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.
Lloyd Alexander
A lady sent me an email recently advising me to change my environment. I guess she read through the lines of my writing and I had adequately painted a portrait of my experiences for her to form a conclusion that melancholia and fatalistic views of my protagonist reveals the depth or layers of my own consciousness. I haven't experienced much of life at twenty five but I've noticed enough, more than most people do at my age. I won't lie that sometimes it leaves me menacingly depressed. I only represent myself. I am in no competition with anyone. I often muse that if people were half concerned about wars and crimes, corruption in high places and poverty with the heavy regard they place upon other's lives then we would have a better world. Just imagine if the average man on the road heckled politicians the way they are often inclined to insult a fat woman. I have a Ton load of bad experiences but I have not allowed them to deter me, people will think about them at some high point in my life and try to use it to besmirch whatever glory I may attain. I understand that too, they can use it for whatever barometer on their lives they see fit but as for me, I used my crash falls as stairwells to greatness. Sometimes I feel alone because I am youthful and curious about life and people judge me for it and oftentimes it leaves me feeling lonely and asocial. You see the deep thinker has to be careful, the shallow minded will take one look and paint him as madness.
Crystal Evans
Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
Sara Sheridan
In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.
Sara Sheridan
For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.
Sara Sheridan
No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.
Alamvusha
Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and dreams never end!What is time?
John Siwicki
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.
Ana Claudia Antunes
That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.
Milan Kundera
Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.
Melody Robinette
Writers fly with imaginary wings.
Melody Robinette
I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.
S.A. Tawks
The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End".
Bryan Koepke
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
Elinor Florence
A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
Stephen King
Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still the same thing. But it's exciting all over again.
Truus Matti
A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.
Christopher Morley
Somehow, the story of the book enhanced the story within it.
Barbara Lieberman
This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.
Jonathan Galassi
The Book CharmYour Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared
Viola Shipman
...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.
Kathleen Smith
Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.
Xinran
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
Carl Sagan
Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies.
kamil Toume
Accepting ourselves, okay I like such type of girls, I like watching porn, I like such kind of music, okay I like such kind off books like horror and sci-fi, I like deathstep as a music... It should be find I should accept myself people should accept me as the guy who I am truly, people should accept themselfs also.
Deyth Banger
We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.
Sara Sheridan
Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!
Deyth Banger
Only LEFT and RIGHT hand can hold each other and walk together...Only RIGHTs are enough to say bye.Nobody is perfect in the world, if you Love the perfection of his/her imperfections then LOVE exists.
Anuj Tiwari
I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath...
Pamela Moore Scott
Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!...
Rebecca Ruter Springer
Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.
Christina Morris
You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.
Elizabeth George
Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy.
Carew Papritz
A book is like a vacation for the brain.
Rachel Adams
They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life.
Susan Bogert Warner
I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.
Bill Watterson
Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.
Louisa May Alcott
It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
Lev Grossman
I like home. It’s warm and there are books.
Ilona Andrews
love was never meant to bejust a metaphorbetween the pages of poetry.
Sanober Khan
This poem inspired me to write my eBook.The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord TennysonAnd I would be the necklace, And all day long to fall and rise Upon her balmy bosom, With her laughter or her sighs; And I would lie so light, so light, I scarce should be unclasp’d at night.
Ellen Read
The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.
T.A. Uner
There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or hungry or sad they had to be just you because there could be no other place for them, anywhere. Books that make you realize you’re not alone, you never were. Those are the ones I like best.
Courtney Summers
Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.
Ian McNulty
And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.
Margaret Atwood
The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.
Shandy L. Kurth
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
Ben Okri
You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.
Mike Carey
Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.
Andrew Kaufman
A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.
Richelle E. Goodrich

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