Book Quotes
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The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.
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The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.
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Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
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Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood.
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I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.
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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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I wanna be a chapter in your book of love.
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Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.
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There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
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Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
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There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
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Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.
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To me, making a CD is like writing a book.
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I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.
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The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.
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I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
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At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
