From Book Quotes

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

It's a gift. Never lend a book.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

We come to this book because something is missing in our souls. This book will take you through the steps that you stumbled over in all your other attempts. And it will bring more than you asked for.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.

Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it.

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.

Donald Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent.