Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.
It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.
I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.
There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.
It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.
I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.