Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.
My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.
The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.
I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.
This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!
A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.
Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.
Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal challenges.
The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.
The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.