Book Quotes - Page 20

• It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

  Andy Andrews

  People, Stories, Easier

  "The Noticer Returns Interview". Interview, www.andyandrews.com. October 3, 2013.

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• The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Empowering, Watching Tv

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Knowing, Secret, Special

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Progress, Gutenberg, Shelves

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Lasts, Moments

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• When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Thinking, Reflection

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Bridges, People, Would Be

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reflection, Self, Years

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Adventure, Sea, People

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

  Garrison Keillor

  Cracks, Nuisance, Strikes

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Phones, Trying

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Guy

  Interview with McClain J., www.teenink.com.

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• I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teacher, Reading, School

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Long, People

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Names, Vision, Would Be

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Ironic

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mind, Culture, Eccentric

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.

  Emma Stone

  Stupid, People, Good Movie

  Source: collider.com

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• People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Guy, Piers

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.

  Andy Andrews

  Reading, Two, Hotel Lobby

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

  Juicy J

  People, Stuff, Royalty

  Source: www.deathandtaxesmag.com

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• I just keep my ear to the street. I haven't read any music books recently, because I figure I read everything I need to know back when I was 12, 13 years old. I know pretty much everything about record publishing, radio stations. The only thing that's changed is you gotta keep up with social media. It's free promotion.

  Juicy J

  Media, Years, Needs

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Two, Lucky

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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