Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.
I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book.
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.
I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.
I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.
It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.