Book Quotes

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.

Read good, big important things.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

Very little happens in my books.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

I know this in a way from my police background: the second you mention, "The system's racist," one-third of the country simply puts down the book and says, "Oh, it's one of those guys."

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

My books are about killing God.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.