Books Quotes

I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
A. N. Wilson

Life, Write, Queen

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
Alexander Payne

Movies, Die, Young

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.
Sloane Crosley

Love, Single, Giving

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.
Michael Sheen

Big, Stories, Daughter

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon

Thought, Rules, Head

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Marilyn French

Great, Wine, Water

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
John le Carre

Money, Made, Wrong

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.
John le Carre

Laugh, Him, Down

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
Len Wein

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J. B. Priestley

Nothing, Wrong, Keep

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Bob Woodward

Long, Either, Felt

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
Joan Collins

Beauty, Health, Food

Well I've written four beauty books as well.
Joan Collins

Beauty, Four, Written

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
Mario Batali

Wedding, Single, Reading

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
Dan Savage

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
Dave Eggers

Mean, Said, Lying

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
Dave Eggers

Business, Design, Try

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
Dave Eggers

Easy, Started, Number

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Dave Eggers

Book, House, Owe

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
Dave Eggers

Hope, Respect, Almost

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.
Carnie Wilson

Love, Time, Wish

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.
Monica Lewinsky

Movies, Idea, Actually

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Axel Munthe

Music, Hope, Live

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
Beth Ditto

Best, Fun, Friend

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom

Good, Failure, Here

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
Marissa Mayer

Media, Internet, Physical

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh

Life, History, Live

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot

Friends, Patient, Wisest

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Live, Die, Themselves

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