Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?
I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!
This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.
The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.