Books Quotes
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
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Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
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The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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That’s what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.
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Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.
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Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
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Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
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Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
