From Book Quotes

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?

I feel like I'm always being challenged by my voice acting roles, for multiple different reasons. I still get nervous every time I book a gig.

You should always judge a book by its lovers.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.