Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.
The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.
It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of a fight!
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.
I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.