Books Quotes
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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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.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
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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.
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All my books are optimistic!
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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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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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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?
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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
