Book Quotes

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

Everybody writes a book too many.

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

Every book is a unique experience.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman that the reader has to confront.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

If you haven't read Zomburbia, you haven't read about zombies. This is a new take and it is scary, freaky, and original. Gallardo resets the zombie bar and it's sky-high. Get this book!

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

My only books were women's looks.

Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Read books. They are good for us.

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.