Book Quotes
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I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
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I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.
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With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
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By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.
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This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress version people often call “organized religion.” And it’s about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
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It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.
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This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don't want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.
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Better is a book than a well built house.
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I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
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I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.
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Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
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I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
