Book Quotes

Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future.

I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

I read books to read myself.

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

Where am I when I am involved in a book?

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

Comic books are a big passion of mine.

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn’t let go, even after you’ve closed the book.

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

I often reread books I have written

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.