I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. John Green
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters. Michael Connelly
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment. Wendelin Van Draanen
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed. Margaret Atwood
In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books. Paula Danziger
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.John Selden
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? Albert Einstein
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Eudora Welty
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. James A.Baldwin
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books. Ally Carter
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. Alain de Botton
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. Daniel Clowes
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. Judy Blume
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Lord Chesterfield
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. Russell banks
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books. Peter Ackroyd
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Ramakrishna