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I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

Finding new books to read and relaxing is what I enjoy when I do have some time to spend on my own.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Pet Sematary' is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on!

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.

'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

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