Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.
About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
Of course, with Papaveria Press, you know the book itself is going to be beautiful.
The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.
The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.
One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.
I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.
There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.
Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.