Book Quotes

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.

Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

God makes trees, he doesn't write books.

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.

I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!