Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear the book. That's the way it works.
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'
I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
Be knowledgeable in your niche, provide some information free of charge, and share other trustworthy people's free resources whenever possible.
I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.
books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.
I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.
I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.
Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.
There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.
I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.
If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)
There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any kind of investigation of a person.
The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.
If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.