From Book Quotes

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her “real” life.

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

I don't know how to write a children's book.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.