From Book Quotes

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

The Web is the new book though, innit?

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.