From Book Quotes

Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It’s simply fabulous.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

The new book is amazing. It's called, The Pleiadian Promise. I get emotional when I just connect to it, because it's really an amazing, powerful, powerful piece of work.

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles and the kinkiest fans!

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

These books are my friends, my companions.

I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Everyone should think for themselves. I learned that in a book I bought called 'Everyone Should Think For Themselves'.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

There was a day on the set of Iron Man where I said, "I remember some of this stuff. I definitely had some Iron Man books. But, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a little bit of a weak spot for me."

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.