Book Quotes
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
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Better is a book than a well built house.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.
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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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A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
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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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Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.
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Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
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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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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
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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.
