Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.
I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.
I like to read to my kids before bed. With my first two sons we went through every Wizard Of Oz book, every original, Frank Baum Oz book.
I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!
There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead
Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'
I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.
I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.