Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.
There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?
Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.
The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.
Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.
Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.
I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.
I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.
You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.
'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.
You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.