From Book Quotes

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

Moms come up to me at book signings.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.