Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.
I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.
If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.
Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!
There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.
One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.
Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.
God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?
I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.