Book Quotes

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Books are dead men talking.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.

While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you don't. If you do, it's intense in what it wants of us.

You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be earned. And it had to be required by the emotional needs of the book.

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

The age of the book is almost gone.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.