From Book Quotes

I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.

The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Books in your head help no one.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

The wise are above books.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

Books can take you places.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.