Book Quotes

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.

If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.

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.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

The issue is that my book, and so many others, are not available for pre-order from Amazon. I hadn't realized how much that mattered for new authors. And how much Amazon is hurting us.

I'm a dyslexic person, so I avoid books.

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books.

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

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.

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

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 .

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

Law dies, books never.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.