From Book Quotes

Better is a book than a well built house.

Children's books are by nature partisan.

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?

The gaslight of the film [The Girl On The Train] became something that really needed to be dramatized more than the book did, because it wasn't going to read as strongly on screen.

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.