Book Quotes

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

You will be the same person ten years from now except for the books you read, the places you go, the people you meet, and the scripture you memorize.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It's all by the books.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Rereading, we find a new book.

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

A book is a loaded gun.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.