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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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.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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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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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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I am not a fan of books.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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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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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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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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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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Read books. They are good for us.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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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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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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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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I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
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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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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
