From Book Quotes

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.