From Book Quotes

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

I am simply a book drunkard.

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.

We can be bought, but we cant be bored.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

Books are more real when you read them outside.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

Every word, every character in a picture book must count.

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

I love jezebel.com for the latest on fashion, style, and celebrity gossip. I also love gawker.com for New York celebrity sightings, and galleycat.com and trashionista.com for book news.

I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or reading books is that we sense that the monetary payment is an extrinsic reward.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.