Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.
My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.
As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.
I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.
You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.
I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.
Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home
We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.
The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo
Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.
It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.