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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.
He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".
We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!
I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.
If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
The only question I'd be interested in is what books other celebrities have read recently, which is part of my campaign to promote reading.
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.
Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.
I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.
Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place.
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.
I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.
People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.