Book Quotes
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This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it” is and however small the thing it is they do.
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At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.
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I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.
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Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Our book technology has Gutenberg at one end and the Ford assembly lines at the other. Both are obsolete. (p. 99)
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In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan.
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
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It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
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We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
