Book Quotes

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

Bonkers doesn't go by the book-he doesn't even know there is a book.

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Books are always good company if you have the right sort.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.