Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?
I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.
I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.
I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.
Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.
Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it
My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!
Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.