From Book Quotes

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books...

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself

I did not go through the Book. The Book went through me.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.