Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.
[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.
The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.
Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.
I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.
You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books
We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.
Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.
When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have a smile on my face.