Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.
I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.
I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.
Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.
I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.
I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.
I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.
There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.