Popular Book Quotes

#1. 'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

Orhan Pamuk

#2. My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Stephen Hawking

#3. I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

Stephen Hawking

#4. I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

Stephen Hawking

#5. 'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

Ian McKellen

#6. Nowadays, even The New York Times Book Review is afraid to say when a popular book is crap.

Lorin Stein

#7. Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.

Echo Bodine

#8. Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.

Alec Waugh

#9. Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.

Anthony Trollope

#10. I don't want to write a book which will bring me fame for just an hour. I will try to write something which may not be very popular but it may last forever.

Debasish Mridha

#11. You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Jasper Fforde

#12. There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#13. The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out. How about never, is never good for you?"

Robert Mankoff

#14. My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

Albert Einstein

#15. All human activity is prompted by desire.

Bertrand Russell

#16. Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Leon M. Lederman

#17. My parents, worried that I might become popular at school, got me a book of puns at an impressionable age.

Alexandra Petri

#18. While reading Kasparov's book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on "popular highlights" to see what passages other readers had found interesting - and wound up becoming fascinated by a section on chess strategy I'd only lightly skimmed myself.

Clive Thompson

#19. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

Charles De Lint

#20. I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Edith Wharton

#21. One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

Jimmy Demaret

#22. What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Gore Vidal

#23. When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It's also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.

Maya Rodale

#24. The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

E.M. Delafield

#25. I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.

Cullen Bunn

#26. Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works.

Anonymous

#27. This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#28. 'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.

Beverly Cleary

#29. [W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle.

Louise Seaman Bechtel

#30. Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Elaine Sciolino

#31. The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

Ezra Taft Benson

#32. OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Ambrose Bierce

#33. I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#34. My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after some delay when it was possible for me to go to college I had definitely decided to specialize in chemistry.

Wallace Carothers

#35. To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

Ann Goldstein

#36. The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#37. You want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

Helen Gurley Brown

#38. For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

Margaret Atwood

#39. My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

Christopher Brookmyre

#40. The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

Ian Plimer

#41. It's the worst sort of snobbery to condemn a book without reading it, merely because it's popular.

Rose Lerner

#42. I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.

Mike Mignola

#43. A book becomes popular because of its text, but it's the subtext that makes it live forever. For

Chuck Klosterman

#44. In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

Nicholas G. Carr

#45. My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

Reinhard Selten

#46. Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

Annalee Newitz

#47. When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person."

Dallas Campbell

#48. Students of popular science ... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#49. No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

Nancy Pearl

#50. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

Edmund Burke

#51. I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.

Nina Jacobson

#52. You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#53. Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

Mark Lawrence

#54. Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

Carol Tavris

#55. The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

Jan Karon