Book Quotes

You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head.

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

Every girl should have this-the little black book for career success!

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I was writing about, without realizing it.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.