I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

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