From Book Quotes

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

This book was made possible by the letter “ø.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

When you have five little kids, you're not going to open Mindy Kaling's latest book. You're playing with your kids.

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

You ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

A book for everyone concerned about our common future.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.

You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

No girl was ever ruined by a book.

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.