Books Quotes

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

Books, the children of the brain.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.