From Book Quotes

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader into a super snooper.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.

When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

It's hard to make a book episodic.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

A book that is shut is but a block.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.