Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.
People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
Life Will Never Be The Same Because There Had Never Been Anyone Like You...Ever in the World.
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.
It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.