Book Quotes
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.
The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family.
I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.
I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.
They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
