Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.
You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer.
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved
I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.
Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.
I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become
I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland