Books Quotes
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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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.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I am not a fan of books.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Books are my weakness.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
