Books Quotes
-
I never wrote my books especially for children.
-
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
-
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
-
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
-
I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
-
I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
-
I love comic books and I love anime.
-
When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
-
I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
-
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
-
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
-
I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.
-
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
-
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
-
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
-
My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
-
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
-
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
-
Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.
-
I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
-
I know all the books of the Bible.
-
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
-
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
-
I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
