Books Quotes

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

Books are a finer world within the world.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

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.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.