Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.
If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.
Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.
I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.
Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.
What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.