Book Quotes

I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.

I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

I like to read to my kids before bed. With my first two sons we went through every Wizard Of Oz book, every original, Frank Baum Oz book.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're writing something for themselves.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out. How about never, is never good for you?"

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies.... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom