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Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.
The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
I always say the next book is my favorite, because without a "next" book, you don't really have a career as a book author.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.
It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.
The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.
It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids.
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.
There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.