From Book Quotes

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.

What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William

Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William

I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

Reading means borrowing.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.