Book Quotes

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Books are the door of escape from the forest.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

The book you don't read won't help.

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading too many books in order to do it right.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

Let my temptation be a book.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.