From Book Quotes

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for two 7,500 word stories, and I turned in two 10,000 word stories.

So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.

Of course, with Papaveria Press, you know the book itself is going to be beautiful.

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

A noble book! all men's book!

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.