Books Quotes
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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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Books and bullets have their own destinies.
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Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.
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I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
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I believe in books.
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While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.
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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
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Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
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I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.
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I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
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Books don't harm kids; they arm them.
