Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.
The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer
Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.
I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.
I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.