Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.
If we're not counting kids' movies - because my kid is constantly watching The Jungle Book - I would have to say Wall Street.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine to me – was a huge honour.
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.
My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere.
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.
I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.