Top 100 Quotes About Interesting Books
#2. Dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.
Abram Gitspof
#3. My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.
Margo Lanagan
#4. always busy because of interesting books
Lois Lowry
#5. Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.)
Ellen Klages
#6. For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.
Selma Lagerlof
#7. We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
Willard Boyle
#8. Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.
Naomi Judd
#9. 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
#10. It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
Terry Pratchett
#11. Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
Harry Golden
#12. Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends.
Deyth Banger
#13. It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
Marjane Satrapi
#14. I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.
Jonathan Tropper
#15. There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.
Kiki Hamilton
#16. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.
Bret Easton Ellis
#18. I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.
Tara Bray Smith
#19. Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.
Karen Traviss
#20. There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.
Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
#21. Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.
Lurlene McDaniel
#22. What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
Albert Brooks
#23. My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
Beverly Cleary
#24. The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
Louise Brown
#25. I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
Don DeLillo
#27. Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.
John Debney
#28. It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.
S.A. Tawks
#29. What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.
Carrie Vaughn
#30. People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
Jasper Fforde
#31. Some people have children. I have books. Much more interesting and they never ask me for money.
J. Lincoln Fenn
#32. My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.
Russell Smith
#33. Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest.
Serafima
#34. At the Foxhole Court "family" was a fantasy invented to make books and Hollywood movies more interesting.
Nora Sakavic
#35. Unlikable characters in books are interesting. Unlikable characters in life are hell.
John King
#36. I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.
James Frey
#37. Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.
M.J. Rose
#38. I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick DeWitt
#39. You see? That's the point. It's all a big guess. They hope, they pray, they cook and garden and get a better job to pay the mortgage and read dirty books to keep bedtime interesting, but they don't know. There are no guarantees. Sometimes you just stop loving someone. You just stop.
Tania Kindersley
#40. One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
Meg Rosoff
#41. I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.
Joe Hill
#42. I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#43. Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
Mark Helprin
#44. I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].
Christopher Bollen
#45. I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read
books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.
Will Schwalbe
#46. Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.
Christopher Fowler
#47. The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.
Edward Gibbon
#48. The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
T.E. Lawrence
#49. Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio.
Godfrey Hounsfield
#50. Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.
Rick Riordan
#51. Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
Jim Crace
#52. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely hearbeat of my own
Ruth Sepetys
#53. In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
Louisa May Alcott
#54. I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre.
Mark Boal
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.
Christina Dodd
#63. The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book
it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
#64. 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
#65. What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
Bryan Fuller
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#71. 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
#72. Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.
Claire Wingfield
#73. 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
#74. The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
James Salter
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.
Daniel Handler
#78. It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic.
Douglas Booth
#79. Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham
#80. Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece of clay into something interesting and beautiful.
Monika Pardon
#81. And he read Principles of Accounting all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.
Terry Pratchett
#82. I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact ... mmm I like!
Harold Alvin
#83. Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
Jane Smiley
#84. Keep moving. Don't get bogged down. Don't think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don't feel like it.
Rick Riordan
#85. Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
A.E. Housman
#86. There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.
George Santayana
#87. At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#88. Regarding children's literature, look for interesting content and well-constructed sentences clothed in literary language. The imagination should be warmed and the book should hold the interest of the child. Life's too short to spend time with books that bore us.
Deborah Taylor-Hough
#89. Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
Anne Rice
#90. It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.
Brian K. Vaughan
#91. 'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.
Josh Hutcherson
#92. Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from what other scientists are doing. You have to tie concepts into everyday life, or they just won't be interesting for readers.
Leonard Mlodinow
#93. Everything interesting was in the books; it was books that made me aware of the variety of the world.
Teju Cole
#94. The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
Jay McInerney
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I leapt eagerly into books. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
Ruta Sepetys
#99. 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
#100. 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
