Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
Radio, books, sports-so many means to spend time, but what I like most is the leafy sunshine amidst the Debdaru.
I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.
I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.
My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.
Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.