From Book Quotes

What an astonishing thing a book is.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.

When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.

Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do"-Cassandra Clare

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Books will always be there for you.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.

I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.