Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.
I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.
We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.
People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.
Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.
Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.