Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.
I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content.