Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.
I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.
I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.
A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.
Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.
I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.
If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.
My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.
I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.
People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.
To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.
Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.