Books Quotes
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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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 kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
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I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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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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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
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The wise are above books.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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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 read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
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Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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Books are my weakness.
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Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
