Books Quotes

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I love books.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.