From Book Quotes

Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

I didn't play music, nobody in my family had an instrument or played music, we didn't even have any books at my house. I think about it and I'm like, I don't know how I climbed out of there.

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.

He is the best, in my whole life i have only read his books!!!!!!

You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.