Book Quotes

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

I have always come to life after coming to books.

I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.

We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Christ is true

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

I collect books, a lot of books.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you.

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.