Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.
I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.
[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone.
What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).
I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.
Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.