Books Quotes

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.