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I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.
The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
Everyone should think for themselves. I learned that in a book I bought called 'Everyone Should Think For Themselves'.
There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!
What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.
The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.