Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Anytime we go to a new town I try to book a show. I literally know nothing about the club.
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books.
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.
Now we not only need to say more about the Book of Mormon, but we need to do more with it.
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book
I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.
He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.