3104 Books Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else. Francis Fukuyama

Life Good Crazy Writing My Life Else Books Out Would One Thing Would-Be Something Something Else Course Trade Doing The One Thing Figured Thing

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer. Francis W. Newman

Prayer Bible School Old First Secret Books Immediately Religious Habit Almost Read Years Commenced Began Eleven

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. Frank Lloyd Wright

Finished Building Books About Write He Well Go Now Four

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.' Franklin Foer

Changes can be made. New decisions can be made. If people say, 'It's not like that in the comics!' Well, comic books reinvent their characters a lot. They do different things with them all the time. They're always changing, always keeping things fresh. So that shouldn't be an issue if the race changes for a character. Franz Drameh

Time Character People Made Changes Changing Books Say Characters People Say New Like Well Fresh Always Comic Comic Books Comics Issue Lot Different Decisions Race Them Different Things Keeping Reinvent Things

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books. Franz Wright

Myself You Book Books Way Giant Would Would-Be Entirely Could Idea Like Read Comfort Came Infinite Different Order Deck Then Pages Used Shuffle Thing Cards

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms. Fred Saberhagen

Time Long Long Time Feeling Other Books Paper Though Gut Gut Feeling Quantities Going Substantial Forms Available Us Certainly Now Ink

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. Fred Saberhagen

Humanity Books Define Written Boundaries Been Efforts Ever

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. Fred Saberhagen

Time Book Stress Few Books Bad Some Through Bad Time Come Most Readers Years Comments Times Happened Ordinary Them Forty Forty Years Who Helping Lives Credit Actually Appreciate

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. G. H. Hardy

Old Men Young Books Write Prove Young Men Old Men Should Theorems

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.' G. Willow Wilson

Women Black Girl Books Ghetto Characters Only Write Writers Allowed Put Women Writers Want Literary Which Create

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me. Gabrielle Zevin

Time Me Every Every Time Books Saw Grandparents Used Bring

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally. Gabrielle Zevin

I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective. Gail Carriger

Character Perspective Down Think Books More Adult Cleaner Main Always Dumb Snappy Person Get Just Really Multiple Flowery Third

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy. Gail Carriger

Science Few Consider Books Some Horror Stuck Adult Put Genre Although Science Fiction Mix Romance Fiction Stores Urban Them Fantasy

You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.' Gail Collins

Myself Me You Class Words Try College Biology Books Those Would Find Computer Had Know Read iPad Been Lot Off Friends Same Doom Wandering Happened Interested Them Games Play Imagine

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25. Gail Porter

Time Girl Books Bored About Written Who By The Time

I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers. I don't care if some books have cheesecake. I am fine with all of that. It's the not allowing anything else that makes me furious. Gail Simone

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