Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.
The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.
No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?