From Book Quotes

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

I always say the next book is my favorite, because without a "next" book, you don't really have a career as a book author.

My books are like my children. I love them all.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece of literature that presents extremism.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.

Having both a pet and a book...absolute heaven.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.