Book Quotes

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.