7,712 Quotes About Books

Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

I always thought 'love at first sight' was silly and incredibly irresponsible. Then, you came along and you flipped it on me. I understand it now. I do! ~Sheriff Derrick Decker

I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.

I am the collection of books I read.

No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?

We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.

I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created.

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet