Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.
I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.
This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.
Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of relationships.
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.