Book Quotes

Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

The title's more important than the book.

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.

I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.

Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most of the reviewing. It's kind of devastating.

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned!

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story.

I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.