Top 32 Non Interesting Books Quotes
#2. In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.
Christina Dodd
#4. I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'
Gretchen Rubin
#5. I never had to plan what to write and I never calculated the amount of money I can make with books. Since I started writing, God has put into my life more experiences, knowledge and interesting people than what I can describe in my writings.
Daniel Marques
#6. It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.
Vladimir Nabokov
#7. My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
Susan Barker
#8. I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to set my books. But as the characters come first, who they are will usually dictate where a book is set.
Kate Walker
#9. Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.
Susan Hill
#10. The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book
it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
#11. It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.
Lois Lowry
#12. I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
Elizabeth Scott
#13. I leapt eagerly into books. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
Ruta Sepetys
#14. I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
A.S. Byatt
#15. Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.
Justin Cronin
#16. If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#17. I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#18. Dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.
Abram Gitspof
#19. This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.
Leonard Nimoy
#20. What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
Bryan Fuller
#21. What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.
Gavriel David Rosenfeld
#22. I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
Enid Blyton
#23. Addie believes in books. They are more interesting than real life and easier to understand. Sometimes you can guess the ending. Things usually work out, and if they don't, you can always tell yourself it was only a book.
Kim Church
#24. I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.
Alberto Manguel
#25. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#26. For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.
Sara Sheridan
#27. Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.
Claire Wingfield
#28. Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
Anais Nin
#29. The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
James Salter
#30. A book had always been a door to another world ... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.
And that love could fill the real world with magic.
Lisa Kleypas
#31. I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Lalla Ward
#32. Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?
Kelly Gallagher
