Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.
Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.
I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."
Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.
I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.
Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.
They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.