Book Quotes
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.
I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.
To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.
There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.
This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.
The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.
A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.
It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
