Book Quotes

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.