Book Quotes

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

My Book and Heart Shall never part.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish and less interested in the profit margin.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.