Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.
I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.
I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.
No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.
I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.
Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks
Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?
Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.
People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.
I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.
The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.