Books Quotes

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

It is over with; I am in the history books.

I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.