Books Quotes
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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So many books, so little time.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then—I think today—did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I often reread books I have written.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
