Book Quotes

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959]. He said Orfeo had made up a new bible.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.

I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a book. This spurs me on to make the writing as perfect as I can make it.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.