Book Quotes
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Never trust a man who reads only one book.
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Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.
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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
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My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and amusing: Sad to think that such archaic and potentially dangerous censorious beliefs still exist, and amused because these censors only make a book more powerful and seductive when trying to ban it.
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You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.
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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
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Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.
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I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
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Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
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By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.
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When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.
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Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.
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Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!” To class she went only once. “I don’t go back,” she said emphatically. “Too foolish book, Dick and Jane.” She shrugged disdainfully. “Not Tolstoi!"
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All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.
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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
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When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.
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For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.
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Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.
