Top 100 Her Book Quotes
#1. any town that thought books were cool enough to be in a bar was A-OK in her book.
Delphina Henley
#2. The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.
Gayle Lynds
#3. Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
Jonathan Galassi
#4. Although her book did include compelling recipes for scrapple, ox cheek, and baked calf's head and tips for the preparation of raccoon, possum, snipe, plovers, and blackbirds (for blackbird pie) and "how to broil, fricassee, stew or fry a squirrel," it was much more than just a cookbook.
Erik Larson
#5. Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. "All
Kristan Higgins
#6. And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
William Goldman
#7. Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.
Alasdair Gray
#8. Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.
Lauren DeStefano
#9. When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
M.J. Rose
#10. Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.
Gabrielle Dubois
#11. Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
Leon Wieseltier
#12. I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.
Reese Witherspoon
#13. [The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.
Mary Allsebrook
#14. In her book The Reluctant Entertainer, Sandy Coughlin writes, "Excellence is working toward an attainable goal that benefits everyone, while perfection comes from a place of great need - usually the need to avoid criticism and gain praise and approval from others.
Myquillyn Smith
#15. her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.
Louise Penny
#16. And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it
L.J.Smith
#17. Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?
Ann Hood
#18. They're her book club but I don't know why because they're not reading books.
Emma Donoghue
#19. I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.
Kate Zambreno
#20. As we were walking along, Britta took her book out of her schoolbag and smelled it. She let all of us smell it. New books smell so good you can tell how much fun it's going to be to read them.
Astrid Lindgren
#21. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#22. Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.
Mark Leiren-Young
#23. I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
Henry Rollins
#24. I would have so loved to learn about the Vikings."
Lillian snorted. "Since when have you been interested in warlike pagans with silly-looking headgear?"
Daisy looked up from her book again. "Are we talking about Grandmother again?
Lisa Kleypas
#25. This is Mindy. Malia was reading her book in Hawaii." My book! Malia Obama was reading my book! The one Amazon reviewer "My2Cents" called "sort of meh"! I was walking on air.
Mindy Kaling
#26. The sensation burst over her, flames and sparks, stars, and all that was holy. She clung to him, blinded by the sun above her, feeling like the light had entered her veins to sing through her book, lift her high above the earth.
Lecia Cornwall
#27. It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.
Rodney Dangerfield
#28. Phryne opened her book and sipped her lemonade. Agatha Christie. What a plotter. Phryne wished briefly that the real world was so amenable to being solved. ***
Kerry Greenwood
#29. You are a total bitch with no humor. Please go get treatment and ENJOY my latest novel!!!! You old crow!"
[Response to a review of her book]
Susan Reinhardt
#30. Michelle felt that if people didn't like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.
Michelle Tea
#31. When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.
John Hodgman
#32. She wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.
Melissa Anelli
#33. When she cries, It's over her book boyfriend
Shaunti Barr
#34. At least Anne Frank," Comrade Snarky said, "never had to tour with her book ...
Chuck Palahniuk
#35. A child her wayward pencil drew
On margins of her book;
Garlands of flower, dancing elves,
Bud, butterfly, and brook,
Lessons undone, and plum forgot,
Seeking with hand and heart
The teacher whom she learned to love
Before she knew t'was Art.
Louisa May Alcott
#36. As soon as I take down her book and open it ... My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.
Eavan Boland
#37. She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.
Michael Cunningham
#38. Her eyes don't leave her book, but I see her smile. It's like the inside of my chest hiccups or something at the sight.
Nyrae Dawn
#39. Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.
Sophy Burnham
#40. She read the last chapter of her book because she didn't want to start something that would end badly.
Richard House
#41. Sheryl Sandberg writes in her book Lean In that women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that and I'll learn by doing it."17
Wendy Sachs
#42. But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.
Alex Flinn
#43. Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.
Madeleine L'Engle
#44. The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
Hanya Yanagihara
#45. She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish the story, wanting to know how it ended. She was afraid she'd run out of time before she ran out of book.
Louise Penny
#46. Did you just tease me with more Jim Sterling?" Mandi Castle; read her book; Dear Stephanie.
Mandi Castle
#48. She would go to bed at ten, read a few pages in her book, and fall asleep. Aomame had never had trouble falling asleep. As she read, she would get sleepy.
Haruki Murakami
#49. Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled 'Chicks I Nailed While Hillary was Writing Her Book.'
Craig Kilborn
#50. A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.
Aditi Dufare
#51. No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.
Emily Gould
#52. Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous
Elizabeth Hunter
#53. It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'
She looked up from her book.
'I would hope, though,' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?'
Mina
David Almond
#55. When I was a kid I never won anything and when I mentioned it to my mom she looked up from her book and pointed out that I had once been the youngest person in the entire world. Sure, it was only for a millisecond, but it was a record I'd set without even trying.
Jenny Lawson
#56. Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.
Erma Bombeck
#57. Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
Carolyn Hart
#58. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#59. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
Ann Radcliffe
#60. I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.
Rebecca McNutt
#61. Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely:
'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.
Edith Wharton
#62. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
Kellyn Roth
#63. Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.
Katherine Paterson
#64. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.
Max Barry
#65. Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
Margaret Atwood
#66. I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
Willa Cather
#67. She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.
Sinclair Lewis
#68. Kissing just like she laughs: honest, heartfelt and heartful, she pulls me down as I lift her up , and the hum she gives when my tongue finds hers makes every one of my nerves fire.
Sarah Elizabeth
#69. Ceony shut the book and glanced to her new teacher. "It's . . . amazing, but I admit it's also superficial. Aesthetic."
"But entertaining," he combated. "Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it's something everyone wants.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#70. I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it was quite crazy, really. I'm just lucky that it came off.
Sara Sheridan
#71. (..) she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby so I ripped the page from the book - "I don't speak. I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara (..)
Jonathan Safran Foer
#72. He heard her low accord,
Half prayer and half ditty,
And He felt a subtle quiver,
That was not heavenly love,
Or pity.
This is not writ
In any book.
Wallace Stevens
#73. My girlfriend bought a cook book the other day called 'Cheap and easy vegetarian cooking'. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian ...
Jimmy Carr
#74. He didn't just love Lila, he was in love with her. And he wanted to marry her not to save her, but to save himself.
Jeannie Moon
#75. He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)
Francois Lelord
#76. I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.
Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition.
R.K. Ryals
#77. if you're reading this book, then you're also that child reading by flashlight and dreaming of other worlds. Don't be scared of her, that inner Beauty, or her dreams. Let her out. She's you, and she's me, and she's magic. There's
Meagan Spooner
#78. She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name." " 'Magnanimous Holiness'? Oh, I like that one." A ghost of a smile appeared on her face, and Dorian looked down at the book.
Sarah J. Maas
#79. Wicked little tongue the witch has, how I would like to bite it out of her mouth" Blood Magic Book 1 of The Draven Witch Series
Zoey Sweete
#80. Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.
Stephanie Hemphill
#81. But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
Pearl S. Buck
#82. I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.
Jamaica Kincaid
#83. She'd declined to attend parties and balls, citing her devotion to the Highland hero of her dreams - but really because she'd preferred to stay home with a book.
Tessa Dare
#84. We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this: that I loved her and she loved me, and we had waited long and long, would be parted no longer.
Gene Wolfe
#85. Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
Jeanette Winterson
#86. Any real, beautiful thing in this world shouldn't be tamed or claimed or broken. It should be allowed to be, worked with, not against, appreciated. Don't be afraid of the wild she has left. It makes her special.
Carly Kade
#87. She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.
Ann Hood
#88. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
E.M. Delafield
#89. Boudicca MacDaede was not the most striking of women, but she had a wryness in character and heartiness in form that recommended her to the rough demands of a farmer's daughter and a soldier's sufferance." ~ First two lines of book 1 in the Haanta Series
Michelle Franklin
#90. Cabrero, kayla said, narrowing her eyes at Alex. If you do that one more time, I will take this book from you and hit you with it till you're dead. Again.
Meg Cabot
#91. One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts - who can say when that will come in handy?
Marilyn Johnson
#92. In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.
Forrest Gander
#93. When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.
Kiran Desai
#94. Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. Christ, how can our family be mankind's best hope?
Natasha Larry
#95. And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
Florence King
#97. One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
Ellen Potter
#98. It's a memoir of various events in my own life, but it's also a teaching book: along the way I explain the writing decisions I made. They are the same decisions that confront every writer going in search of his or her past: matters of selection, reduction, organization and tone.
William Zinsser
#99. But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.
Brenna Yovanoff
#100. Fallon and I were a lot like them. Only I didn't love her, and she didn't love me. I was infatuated with her once - and loved that she let me take my pubescent urges out on her - but we weren't in love.
Penelope Douglas
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