From Book Quotes

Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy

The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.

I'm not really book-smart.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.