Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
I don't want people to judge books by their cover, I want people to be open minded to the rest of the world.
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.
I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.
When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!
Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.
I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.
Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.
And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.