From Book Quotes

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can bet that I'll steal away with a book or two.

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

I just believe in the movie. I don't care what the book was like. I don't care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I've got.

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.

Every book is a box of ideas.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.

Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

I want to print books by people in the film industry.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.