Books Quotes

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.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.