From Book Quotes

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

Books are the curse of the human race.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

My mother's work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.

If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.

It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.