From Book Quotes

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of the details of what you're doing along the way.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I worked with in the paper mill. Some of them could make a dog laugh.

I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.

When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama.

I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.You know why? I didn't want to, but he sent me his book with his autograph.

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.

Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

This book is to be read in bed.

As far as exercising goes... watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.

I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.