Book Quotes
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If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'
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My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.
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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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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
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I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
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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'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'
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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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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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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
