Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.
[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.
I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.
I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.
One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.
I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.